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This 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
by mezzman 7mo ago
This 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 7mo 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 7mo 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 7mo 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 7mo 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.