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Stereo Sue
Personal blog · stereosue.comhealth
Stereo Sue is a personal blog at stereosue.com about health. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Stereo Sue for material on stereoblindness, binocular vision and strabismus, including notes on Frederick Brock's work and vision-training resources. Commenters mostly share it as a reference.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-09-26
What Hacker News says?
Take a look at Sue Barry's notes on Frederick Brock's work on binocular vision, http://www.stereosue.com/brocks-lecture-notes-on-strabismus-...
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on “Training Your Brain So That You Don’t Need Reading Glasses (2017)”One note is that opticianry and optometry are not separated in Germany. While this may lead to conflict of interest, it can also lead to a better eye exam. We can now manufacture lenses to 0.01D but still perform exams in 0.25D increments. Everyone should have their eyes examined by two independent doctors, preferably in diverse cities, just to see the range of subjectivity involved in each prescription. Why can't S…
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on “Training Your Brain So That You Don’t Need Reading Glasses (2017)”I too had pretty bad strabismus when I was born and had an operation to correct it around 3yo, but have never been able to see in 3D, except for 3D movies where the effect is important. I have never been able to see a stereogram for example (and there was a huge fad of them when I was a teenager). As soon as I try to focus beyond the image as I was told many times, my left eye wanders off and nothing happens. He des…
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on “I Am Stereoblind, But The Oculus Rift Is My Corrective Lens”This is one of the reasons I read HN every day. So much to learn. One of my kids has strabismus. He had surgery when he was seven. My wife wanted him to have surgery earlier (2 to 3). It took five years to convince me that the idea made any sense. It didn't. Not to me. As an engineer I saw this as a control problem, not a mechanical problem. Doctors (as in PhD's) at UCLA insisted that these conditions are caused by…
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on “I Am Stereoblind, But The Oculus Rift Is My Corrective Lens”These may be useful: http://www.convergenceinsufficiency.org http://www.strabismusworld.com http://stereosue.com https://nocturnalfred.github.io/strabismicapp/ https://youtube.com/user/VisualExercises
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on “Does wearing glasses weaken your eyesight? (2014)”