Nolan Arbaugh
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first heard Aug 2024
last heard Aug 2024
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Yeah, that's one thing that I really, really enjoy about WebGrid is because I'm so competitive. The higher the BPS, the higher the score, I know the better I'm doing. I think I've asked at one point one of the guys if he could give me some sort of numerical feedback for calibration. I'm like, I would like to know what they're looking at.
Like, oh, you know, it is, we see like this number while you're doing calibration. And that means at least on our end that we think calibration is going well. And I would love that because I would like to know if what I'm doing is going well or not. But then they've also told me like, yeah, not necessarily like one-to-one. It doesn't actually mean that calibration is going well in some ways.
So it's not like a hundred percent and they don't want to like skew what I'm experiencing or want me to change things based on that. If that number isn't always accurate to like how the model will turn out or how like the end result, that's at least what I got from it. One thing I do, I have asked them in something that I really enjoy striving for is like,
Towards the end of calibration, there is a time between targets. And so I like to keep, at the end, that number as low as possible. So at the beginning, it can be four, five, six seconds between me popping bubbles. But towards the end, I like to keep it below 1.5. Or if I could, get it to one second between bubbles.
Because in my mind, that translates really nicely to something like WebGrid, where I know if I can hit a target... uh, one every second that I'm doing real, real well.
Yeah, so closed loop is when I first get cursor control and how they've described it to me, someone who does not understand this stuff. I am the dumbest person in the room every time I'm with any of these guys. I love the humility, I appreciate it.
um is that i am closing the loop so i am actually now um the one that is like finishing the loop of whatever this loop is i don't even know what the loop is they've never told me they just say there is a loop and at one point it's open and i can't control and then i get control and it's closed so i'm finishing the loop so how long the calibration usually take you said like 10-15 minutes
Well, yeah, they're trying to get that number down pretty low. That's what we've been working on a lot recently is getting that down as low as possible. So that way, you know, if this is something that people need to do on a daily basis or if some people need to do on a like – every other day basis or once a week. They don't want people to be sitting in calibration for long periods of time.
I think they wanted to get it down seven minutes or below, at least where we're at right now. It'd be nice if you never had to do calibration. So we'll get there at some point, I'm sure, the more we learn about the brain. And I think that's the dream. I think right now, for me to get really, really good models... I'm in calibration 40 or 45 minutes. And I don't mind.
Like I said, they always feel really bad. But if it's going to get me a model that can break these records on WebGrid, I'll stay in it for flipping two hours.
Yeah. Um...
Yeah, you know, I'd like to thank everyone who's helped me get here, my coaches, my parents for driving me to practice every day at five in the morning. I'd like to thank God and just overall my dedication to my craft.
Yeah.
It's literally just a grid. They can make it as big or small as you can make a grid. A single box on that grid will light up and you go and click it. And it is a way for them to benchmark how good a BCI is. So it's, you know, pretty straightforward. You just click targets.
So I like playing on like bigger grids because the bigger the grid, the like more BPS, it's bits per second that you get every time you click one. So I'll say I'll play on like a 35 by 35 grid. grid and then one of those little squares cell call it target whatever will light up and you move the cursor there and you click it and then you do that forever
Yeah, I'm at 8.5 right now. I would have beaten that literally the day before I came to Austin, but I had like a, I don't know, like a five second lag right at the end. And I just had to wait until the latency calmed down and then I kept clicking, but Um, I was at like 8.01 and then five seconds of lag. And then the next like three targets I clicked all stayed at 8.01.
So if I would have been able to click, um, during that time of lag, I probably would have hit, I don't know, I might've hit nine. So I'm there. I'm like, I'm really close. And then this whole Austin trip has really gotten in the way of my web grid playing ability. Yeah. So that's all you're thinking about right now. Yeah, I know. I just, I just want, I want to do better at nine.
I want to do better. I want to hit nine. I think, well, I know nine is very, very achievable. I'm right there. I think 10, I could hit maybe in the next month. Like I could do it probably in the next few weeks if I really push.
Yeah, it's just really fun.
Yeah, it's addicting. I've joked about what they actually did when they went in and put this thing in my brain. They must have flipped a switch to make me more susceptible to these kinds of games, to make me addicted to WebGrid or something. Yeah. Do you know Bliss' high score?
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