Fun trivia:
The visualization of recorded laughter is almost invariant among humans. That is to say – Everyone Laughs The Same. I’ve seen laughter recorded from I dunno how many people, dozens at least, maybe getting close to a hundred? And it always looks like this:
A series of choppy vertical lines, close together, with high spikes followed by deep dips. The “Ha-Ha-Ha” sound. It didn’t take me very long to learn this. It’s very easy to pick out laughter in tracks by sight, without any audio. And whenever I see these spikes coming down the line I smile, because I know what’s coming. I’ve come to associate this waveform with warm feelings. It makes me happy that all humans basically laugh the same.
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That is a cool fact. Could you elaborate as to what is being recorded/displayed by those lines.
It’s the audio tracks for the most recently recorded Bayesian Conspiracy episode, one track per person, so three people laughing. The lines themselves are strength-of-input over time, so basically volume-over-time. Compare to a track of average speech – https://deathisbadblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/just-speech.png
Cheers mate
This is really neat, and kind of beautiful.