The link allows you to "Speed read" the PG essay "Putting Ideas to Words".
I'm experimenting with a UX that I've been optimizing it for "speed reading" any online article. Initially, I made it for my 8 yo son, to see whether he found the experience more or less compelling to reading off a page.
Good news is he enjoyed it and was comprehending as well or better than reading it the conventional way. I paused from time to time to ask questions to confirm comprehension and he was actually absorbing material faster than his school thought he could read.
That led me to try locally, an LLM that'll generate questions and I'm considering a little App that pauses every N seconds with multiple choice questions to keep engagement and comprehension to make it a sort of reading game.
cyrusradfar•1h ago
I'm experimenting with a UX that I've been optimizing it for "speed reading" any online article. Initially, I made it for my 8 yo son, to see whether he found the experience more or less compelling to reading off a page.
Good news is he enjoyed it and was comprehending as well or better than reading it the conventional way. I paused from time to time to ask questions to confirm comprehension and he was actually absorbing material faster than his school thought he could read.
That led me to try locally, an LLM that'll generate questions and I'm considering a little App that pauses every N seconds with multiple choice questions to keep engagement and comprehension to make it a sort of reading game.
You can play with custom markdown here: https://cyrusradfar.com/labs/adhd-reader
There's a bookmarklet you can add to chrome/safari/etc., if you'd like to play with it across the web.
Feedback and ideas for directions to take this experiment are welcome.