numinos1

I just spent the past five years learning Morse code, and for me it was significantly more difficult than learning a foreign language. Perhaps I'm just getting old and my brain isn't as pliable as it used to be, but it's been a very long and difficult journey. Here is what I've learned:

- You can memorize the letters and decode up to around 20 WPM. But this is using the low-bandwidth, logical part of the brain which simply isn't capable of decoding much beyond 20 WPM.

- To go beyond 20WPM you have to hand-off the processing to the subconscious mind. This is the phase that's equivalent to learning a new language. It requires a tremendous amount of repetition to build the mental muscle memory to hear the letters as a single sound instead of a series of beeps. It literally took years of daily practice to get there.

- Once you've mastered the individual letters you eventually start hearing combinations of letters as unique sounds. And at some point, you start to hear entire words, not letters.

- If I attempt to perceive individual letters at higher speeds I almost always end up missing the rest of the word. At these speeds, the conscious, logical brain becomes a liability that must be to be surpressed to decode effectively. As a 30 year software developer, this has been VERY difficult to do.

- When I get into the flow, I don't "think" about the letters or "hear" a series of beeps. The words somehow just magically pop into my mind.

Unless awareness is independent of the universe and traverses the branching worlds through observation and free will.

We're already half way there. Google Docs now utilizes an "assistive writing" AI that displays warnings for words or phrases that are considered "non-inclusive".

I met Dan Brown at an event where he stated that (Writing the Blockbuster Novel)[https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Blockbuster-Novel-Albert-Zuck...] was the formula he used to write his books.

This will no longer be true next year, as The American Ornithology Society's Diversity & Inclusion Committee plans to rename all these species with "non-colonized, inclusive" names.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84GchnXInb8&t=3903s&ab_chann...

That will undoubtedly happen. But hopefully by then we'll have moved on to more fertile ground.

YouTube is slowly transitioning from a UGC video marketplace into a modern version of cable tv. These technical oversights aren't bugs. They're a deliberate effort to shape user behavior and maximize advertising revenue. Old content is a liability and is slowly being deprecated from the system.

Would you care explaining?

And then there's the guy who communicated with an individual from the 16th century through his BBC Micro:

https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15271

Lamentably, I don't see anything in the user guide about that feature ;-)

This reminds me of the "acoustic vector sensor" developed by a Dutch acoustics firm that can pinpoint any conversation in a crowd.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21929364-400-matchsti...

I think that was his point.