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"Pink noise sounds like a waterfall." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_noise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_noise
by sowbug 8mo ago
"Pink noise sounds like a waterfall." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_noise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_noise
- tartoran 8mo agoHelps me quite a bit to focus when Im in noisy spaces.
- mezzman 8mo agoThis reminds me of an old Wired interview with Danny Hillis when he developed a system called Babble that used unintelligible vocal bits as background sound to help concentration, too bad it never really went anywhere. https://www.wired.com/2005/06/applied-minds-think-remarkably/ https://www.wired.com/2005/06/applied-minds-think-remarkably...
- llm_nerd 8mo agoA number of noise generators have that sort of nonsensical babble as a component of the sound. For instance https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/cafeRestaurantNoiseGenerator.php https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/cafeRestaurantNoiseGenerat... Nothing that your mind has enough edges on to try to interpret, but vaguely human-like.
- Karawebnetwork 8mo agomynoise's Cafe Restaurant generator got me through years of working in a noisy open office. Can't recommend it enough. I put the cutlery noises on mute though.
- nine_k 8mo agoFor me that would be the worst kind of distraction: always triggered by sounds of communication, never able to recognize what is said. I suspect not all such statistical results apply uniformly to all people.
- fy20 8mo agoYes I have the opposite. I can focus better when I'm working from a coffee shop and I don't understand what people are saying.
- is_true 8mo agoWith some friends we usually go camping near a waterfall and we always try to camp a little further so we don't hear the noise. At least not too much. We always assumed it was related to the fact that you can't hear anything approaching, some kind of primal instinct
- xtiansimon 8mo agoSounds like my tinnitus.