Shannon's Journal Discussion Thread, Vol. 5

[THolt]

Hey Shannon

Three questions:

1) For those of us who use music players that doesn't support FLAC.

I googled that you can convert FLAC to ALAC easily, without losing quality.

Can you recommend that?

Reason I'm asking is the other music player I use for FLAC takes a huge toll on battery usage compared to the native music player.

If you haven't read this:

https://subliminal-talk.com/Thread-New-a...at-request

Then do so now.  It's better to use the MP3 than to transcode it for those reasons, if you're not willing to use the FLAC.

2) Sooner or later, you gotta find a baseline to run OF v3 on no?
The more popular subliminals get, the more people will use them.

Leading to more questions specificly about usage pattern and time of the 5.75.7G subs

And you only have so much time to read and reply to everyone.

As it is supposed to be unique to every individual?

I'm curious how you did the testing of the effectiveness of the 5.75.7G subs and why the standard is set as it is with 1-2 loops for 2 days and 3 days off, and so on...

The goal is to have AutoConfig set course for each individual.  But I do calculate starting points for the instructions.  5.75.7G is such new technology that we had to start very low to make sure it wasn't overkill.  I'm trying to adjust to the patterns I see resulting from my instructions.  In the near future, I'm going to make the AutoConfig much more powerful so it works for pretty much everyone.  

Testing is mostly done using my predictive models.  There is no way I could reliably test these things with people alone anymore, given the general unreliability of testers, the scarcity of people suitable for testing and the impossibility of me overseeing testing in person to catch misunderstandings and misconceptions that the tester may have.  I have only a very small handful of human testers who have proven reliable.  Testing using only humans would immediately grind our progress to a halt because the testing would require 6 to 18 months for each title and each advancement I make at this point, and that's not to say we would only have to wait that long because the development requires months too.  

The standard is set also by the predictive models as a starting point which will not overwhelm those who are unfamiliar with 5.75.7G and which can be adjusted from if necessary, while still being effective for most people.

3) If one should go for intuition, I feel I could handle much more loops, like I feel 4 hours (by mistake) the first night was near the edge of what I felt good about.

So I'm thinking - today is my 3rd day OFF and tonight I'm looping again for the next 2 days but instead of going 2 loops, I feel like 4-6 loops would be good testing grounds.

What do you think about that? Should I trust intuition/feeling this early in the new sub usages?

Thx!!

-LM

The AutoConfig isn't your intuition.  It giving you instructions is coming from some of the same parts that govern your intuition, but the AutoConfg is not intuition or "psychic guidance".  It's designed to cause your cooperative subconscious to figure out the optimal usage patterns for you and communicate that to your conscious mind through urges and desires to do those things.

You can move up to 4x a day on, but first you should make sure you're not using too many days off per ASRB2 cycle.  For some people 3 days off is too much.

For me 3 days off is too many and 1 day off is too few. 

My current set up is 3 loops a day, 2 days on and 2 days off and I listen on my days off if I get the urge like I did a couple days ago.