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OpenAI charges by the minute, so speed up your audio

(george.mand.is)
685 points georgemandis | 2 comments | 25 Jun 25 13:17 UTC | HN request time: 0.63s | source
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heeton ◴[25 Jun 25 15:10 UTC] No.44378250[source]▶
A point on skimming vs taking the time to read something properly.

I read a transcript + summary of that exact talk. I thought it was fine, but uninteresting, I moved on.

Later I saw it had been put on youtube and I was on the train, so I watched the whole thing at normal speed. I had a huge number of different ideas, thoughts and decisions, sparked by watching the whole thing.

This happens to me in other areas too. Watching a conference talk in person is far more useful to me than watching it online with other distractions. Watching it online is more useful again than reading a summary.

Going for a walk to think about something deeply beats a 10 minute session to "solve" the problem and forget it.

Slower is usually better for thinking.

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1. mutagen ◴[25 Jun 25 16:36 UTC] No.44379201[source]▶
Not to discount slower speeds for thinking but I wonder if there is also value in dipping into a talk or a subject and then revisiting (re-watching) with the time to ponder on the thoughts a little more deeply.
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2. tass ◴[25 Jun 25 16:50 UTC] No.44379383[source]▶
This is similar to strategies in “how to read a book” (Adler).

By understanding the outline and themes of a book (or lecture, I suppose), it makes it easier to piece together thoughts as you delve deeper into the full content.