May 25th 2026 - Interesting Finds

Didgeridoo playing helps with sleep apnoea

Patients who had sleep apnoea and played Didgeridoo for 5-6 days per week 25 minute minutes each day had significant improvements in their sleep apnoea and daytime sleepiness scores.

Research on ChatGPT number guessing distribution

This research on ChatGPT number guessing distribution shows there are similarities shown between the chart in the Vertitasium video at 4:50 and the research README. Perhaps its because LLMs are trained on human writing and when humans write about random numbers the AI learns these patterns. When viewed from that perspective its not that surprising.

Emacs convert text to phonetic alphabet

We can use (nato-region) to convert text to the NATO phonetic alphabet and (denato-region) to convert it back.

Emacs convert text to morse code

We can use (morse-region) to convert text to morse code and (unmorse-region) to convert it back.