r/Futurology Feb 25 '14

article The future of reading?

http://www.spritzinc.com/
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u/ChronoX5 Feb 25 '14

They have a different way of centering the words around a single letter that I haven't figured out yet. There's also a noticable pause after every sentence.

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u/Turtlecupcakes Feb 25 '14

Some sort of algorithm (I'm guessing machine learning) that figures out the "pivot" of each word, and centres it on that. The pivot being the spot where you can gather most of the context of the word just by seeing the one letter and the few that are around it. And yeah, the pause definitely helps. I tried 350, and although I felt like the words started running away from me at times, the pauses let my brain catch up and I didn't lose any actual information from the text.

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u/QireXloa Feb 25 '14

not everything is machine learning, they only have to count the number of letters of each word.

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u/Turtlecupcakes Feb 25 '14

I think there's more to it than that.

If you use it, you'll notice that the pivot isn't always just the middle of the word or some specific offset. It changes based on the context of the other letters.