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  • I wouldn't be surprised if those people are also generally #5 or thereabouts on this chart

    Afaik the two are unrelated. I'd guess the ‘narration’ rather might be tied to the internal monologue. E.g. I'm around 2 or 3 on visualization, but have lots of monologuing going on constantly, and likewise ‘hear’ the text being read unless I specifically try to skim. It's also worse in the second language, which is English for me, while I can read my native language faster — I've noticed before that the second language requires more brain processing and isn't absorbed as directly.

    Do you have the internal monologue, when not reading?

    The ‘speed reading’ technique, of which you might've heard, is all about turning off the internal narration while reading and just absorbing the text directly. However, studies show that for most people, the narration helps comprehension and recall; and also that everyone or nearly everyone has subvocalization when reading, i.e. involuntary muscle movement of the throat, mirroring the words that they're reading.

  • We have hardware in the brain wired to recognize faces. For some people it's not working too well, independently of the other abilities.

  • I'm coming to think there is a lot more nuance to this than the 5 images let on.

    It's just that spatial skills are separate from the visualization ability, and are judged separately. I've been told even that people with aphantasia can do the ‘memory palace’ mnemonic technique, though I can't quite see how.

  • Well, if it makes anyone feel better, I'm somewhere around 2 or 3. But that's really nothing to write about.

  • I've been told on Reddit that people with aphantasia can actually do the ‘memory palace’ thing. But, since it was just one commenter who didn't quite describe how it would work, while I myself can visualize but dislike the ‘palace’ technique, I have no further information as to how to do it.

  • I've seen a recommendation for the books ‘Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain’ by Betty Edwards and ‘The Creative License: Giving Yourself Permission to Be The Artist You Truly Are’ by Danny Gregory. The commenter also attached their drawings from before and after, saying it took a quite short time to go from rudimentary scribblings to full-fledged detailed realistic drawings. So perhaps these books help, though I've got a feeling they might be about drawing from references.

    The same is true if I was going to try to describe the minutia in the painting - what color is the officer's hair? Are any of the characters wearing glasses? What do the wrinkles in their clothes look like? What kind of shoes are they wearing?

    I'm not really an artist, but for myself I resolved this problem by making decisions like that when I come around to those details. I.e. I'll choose the fitting shoes when it's time to draw the shoes. And of course, sketching is for planning this kind of stuff before drawing proper begins.

  • Well, the game uses portable bytecode for the ‘Z-machine’ interpreter, and there are dozens of third-party interpreters for it. You can run these games on your phone, no need to compile them.

  • Lovage is actually quite similar to instrumental hiphop/breaks that was released on Ninja Tune in the nineties. DJ Food, The Cinematic Orchestra, Wagon Christ, Coldcut, that kind of stuff.

  • Not to be mistaken with ‘The Beach Sounds’ by Pet Shop Boys.

  • ‘Rockit’ was pretty much entirely made by the production team of Bill Laswell and Michael Beinhorn, from the band Material, with GrandMixer DXT and three other dudes doing the scratching. Hancock basically came in at the end to play some synth lines.

  • The shape of the ear plays part in the perception of sounds that come directly from front, back, top or bottom.

  • It's because you played the boring album version, instead of the one and only 1973 live version.

  • Kinda sounds like businessfunk that would play during classified ads on tv in the nineties.

  • TBF that's the more incongruous part of the garb, by today's standards. Regular ties look better, even if the whole thing feels like a wet dream of the Aryan Brotherhood:

  • ‘c’ and ‘t’ should definitely be hit with different fingers if you do touch-typing. But with one hand, that's true.

  • I'm gonna bet yes for the simple reason that various helper scripts exist that do advanced cd history, with fuzzy search and whatnot, and they can't be implemented as anything other than functions.