| ▲ | sowbug 3 hours ago |
| "Pink noise sounds like a waterfall." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_noise |
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| ▲ | is_true 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| With 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 |
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| ▲ | tartoran 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Helps me quite a bit to focus when Im in noisy spaces. |
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| ▲ | mezzman 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | 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... | | |
| ▲ | nine_k 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | For 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 30 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Yes 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. |
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| ▲ | llm_nerd 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | A number of noise generators have that sort of nonsensical babble as a component of the sound. For instance https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/cafeRestaurantNoiseGenerat... Nothing that your mind has enough edges on to try to interpret, but vaguely human-like. |
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