Nolan Arbaugh
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first heard Aug 2024
last heard Aug 2024
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Yeah.
I think I can.
Yeah. So I've been playing first off with the dwell cursor, which really hampers my web grid playing ability. Basically I have to wait 0.3 seconds for every click to
0.3 seconds, which sucks. It really slows down how much I'm able to – like how high I'm able to get. I still hit like 50 – I think I hit like 50-something trials, net trials per minute in that, which was pretty good because I'm able to like – One of the settings is also like how slow you need to be moving in order to initiate a click, to start a click.
So I can tell sort of when I'm on that threshold to start initiating a click just a bit early. So I'm not fully stopped over the target when I go to click. I'm doing it like on my way to the targets a little to try to time it just right.
Yeah, just a hair right before the targets.
Well, I can get down to 0.2 and 0.1. 0.1, yeah, and I've played with that a little bit too. I have to adjust a ton of different parameters in order to play with 0.1, and I don't have control over all that on my end yet. It also changes how the models are trained. If I train a model in WebGrid, like a bootstrap on a model, which basically is them training models as I'm playing WebGrid,
um based off of like the web grid data that i'm so like if i play web grid for 10 minutes they can train off that data specifically um in order to get me a better model um if i do that with 0.3 versus 0.1 the models come out different the way that they interact. It's just much, much different. So I have to be really careful.
I found that doing it with 0.3 is actually better in some ways, unless I can do it with 0.1 and change all of the different parameters, then that's more ideal because obviously 0.3 is faster than 0.1. So I could get there. I can get there.
For right now, it's the hover clicking with the dwell cursor. Before all the thread retraction stuff happened, we were calibrating clicks, left click, right click. That was my previous ceiling before I broke the record again with the dwell cursor was I think on a 35 by 35 grid with left and right click. And you get more BPS, more bits per second using multiple clicks because it's more difficult.
Yeah, blue targets for left click, orange targets for right click is what they had done. So my previous record of 7.5 was with the blue and the orange targets. Which I think if I went back to that now...
um doing the click calibration i would be able to and being able to like initiate clicks on my own i think i would break that 10 ceiling like in a couple days max like yeah you start making bliss nervous about his 17 why do you think we haven't given him the yeah exactly uh so what would it feel like with the retractions that there is uh some of the threads retracted It sucked.
It was really, really hard. The day they told me was the day of my big Neuralink tour at their Fremont facility. They told me like right before we went over there, it was really hard to hear. My initial reaction was, all right, go in, fix it. Go in, take it out, and fix it. The first surgery was so easy. I went to sleep. A couple hours later, I woke up, and here we are.
I didn't feel any pain, didn't take any pain pills or anything. I just knew that if they wanted to, they could go in and put in a new one next day if that's what it took. Because I just wanted it to be better, and I wanted not to lose the capability. I had so much fun playing with it for a few weeks, for a month. It had opened up so many doors for me.
It had opened up so many more possibilities that I didn't want to lose it after a month. I thought it would have been a cruel twist of fate if I had gotten to see... the view from the top of this mountain and then have it all come crashing down after a month. And I knew, say the top of the mountain, but how I saw it was I was just now starting to climb the mountain.
There was so much more that I knew was possible. And so to have all of that be taken away was really, really hard. But then on the drive over to the facility, I don't know, like five minute drive, whatever it is, I talked with my parents about it. I prayed about it. I was just like, you know, I'm not going to let this ruin my day.
I'm not going to let this ruin this amazing tour that they have set up for me. I want to go show everyone how much I appreciate all the work they're doing. I want to go meet all of the people who have made this possible. And I want to go have one of the best days of my life. And I did. And it was amazing. And it absolutely was one of the best days I've ever been privileged to experience.
And then for a few days, I was pretty down in the dumps. But for like the first few days afterwards, I was just like, I didn't know if it was ever going to work again. And then I just, I made the decision that it, Even if I lost the ability to use the Neuralink, even if I lost out on everything to come, if I could keep giving them data in any way, then I would do that.
If I needed to just do some of the data collection every day or body mapping every day for a year, then I would do it. Because I know that everything I'm doing helps everyone to come after me. And that's all I wanted. I guess the whole reason that I did this was to help people. And I knew that anything I could do to help, I would continue to do.
Even if I never got to use the cursor again, then I was just happy to be a part of it. and everything that I had done was just a perk. It was something that I got to experience, and I know how amazing it's gonna be for everyone to come after me, so might as well just keep truckin' along, you know?
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