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by hoodwink 1y ago
Same.
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by hoodwink 1y ago
It doesn’t matter if the foreign workers are contractors or employees. The expense is considered R&D and must be amortized over 15 years. I’ve dealt with this personally since 2023 for my company working with a legion of tax consultants
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by hoodwink 3y ago
Met my cofounder on HN in 2017. We’ve since been working on a consumer saas app called Readwise for past 6 years.
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by hoodwink 3y ago
thank you.
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Ghostreader: AI “Copilot of Reading”(twitter.com)
1 points by hoodwink 4y ago|0 comments
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by hoodwink 4y ago
we were testing bionic reading’s claim. they make no claims to only working when reading challenges are present.
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by hoodwink 4y ago
i made the dataset publicly available. all the distributions are approximately normal.
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by hoodwink 4y ago
these might be the kindest words i've ever gotten in a hacker news thread so thank you! :D we've actually built an app for reading articles and ebooks (and RSS and PDFs and email newsletters and Twitter threads): https:/&#x2
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by hoodwink 4y ago
https://blog.readwise.io/bionic-reading-results/#comprehensi...
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by hoodwink 4y ago
giant hero section on bionic-reading.com: "Did you know that your brain reads faster than your eye?" title of bionic-reading.com: "Faster. Better. More focused. Reading." does "faster" not refer to speed to you
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by hoodwink 4y ago
thanks marc! appreciate the kindness. ps- philly native here :)
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by hoodwink 4y ago
hey there! thanks for the kind words :) on AI-based booked summarization, here's a really interesting article by OpenAI on the topic: https://openai.com/blog/summarizing-books/ *any idea when the chrome app w
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by hoodwink 4y ago
thanks rasul! on an individual basis, there is some evidence that reading with your "best" font may have a meaningful impact on reading speed with no loss of comprehension. but you could probably unlock these gains by simply switc
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by hoodwink 4y ago
i got that feedback a lot after initially posting the experiment: > Since posting this experiment, I've received a lot of side comments along the lines of, "Well, of course I don't expect Bionic Reading to work for most pe
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by hoodwink 4y ago
nice to meet you, Nick! shooting you an email now :)
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by hoodwink 4y ago
My best interpretation of the test results is that Bionic Reading is just an exotic text styling that has no impact -- positive or negative -- on reading speed or reading comprehension. If it were a form of speed reading, we would have obse
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We found no evidence that Bionic Reading has a positive effect on reading speed(blog.readwise.io)
211 points by hoodwink 4y ago|139 comments
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by hoodwink 4y ago
Hey everyone, this is the follow up post to the experiment posted here on Hacker News a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31826204 . I'll be hanging out in the replies today if there are any questions
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by hoodwink 4y ago
for sure. due to this improved experiment design, we should now have the data to perform paired analyses rather than just looking at means. what test do you use to compare variances though?
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by hoodwink 4y ago
yeah i acknowledged that in the experiment design discussion > We recognize this is clearly not a gold standard, double-blind RCT. Researcher and participant alike knew what Bionic Reading claims to achieve. We simply did not have time t
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by hoodwink 4y ago
sorry about that. that was an oversight on our part, but we're collecting the comprehension scores in the dataset and will include in our results hopefully sometime next week.
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by hoodwink 4y ago
we’re capturing desktop versus mobile :)
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by hoodwink 4y ago
we'll definitely make a follow up post once we've gathered enough data here! hopefully in a week or so :) (my results were 2% faster with BR)
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An experiment to test if Bionic Reading helps you read faster(blog.readwise.io)
160 points by hoodwink 4y ago|93 comments
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by hoodwink 4y ago
what app is he talking about?
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by hoodwink 6y ago
Met my co-founder thru HN comments. We’ve since operated a delightful consumer SaaS business called Readwise for the past 4 years. I think this speaks to the main benefit for me: hanging out with forward-thinking technologists I couldn’t in
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by hoodwink 6y ago
One of the creators of Readwise here :) Love what you’re doing and we’re about to ship a public API. Hit us up at hello@readwise.io!
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by hoodwink 6y ago
This article has my Kindle highlights + Anki setup at the end: https://blog.readwise.io/remember-more-of-what-you-read-with...
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by hoodwink 6y ago
Make sure you’re disconnected while trying to read. Either a physical book or Kindle. It helps to ritualize this disconnection by walking to a park or special reading chair.
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Plastic words: the tyranny of a modular language(adamtownsend.me)
2 points by hoodwink 7y ago|0 comments

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