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Brain's Cache Memory Found
Shipud writes "Electrical activity in a single section of the brain has been linked to very short-term
working memory, as is
reported at Nature. Very short-term working memory capacity is thought to be related to intelligence. In the same way that a larger cache speeds processing time, people with a greater capacity for holding images in their heads are expected to have better reasoning and problem-solving skills. The localization of this ability is a surprising finding, as until now it was believed that STWM was diffused throughout the cortex, rather than localized."
Is this going to lead to benchmarking people?
Employer: I'm sorry sir you don't have a big enough cache for our needs. We are going to have to let you go.
Employee: Man this blows i would be really upset but i forgot what you just said.
A Fatal OE Exception has occurred, Sig will now reboot.
Does the article mention anything about expansion modules? I'd read it myself, but I can't remember what we're talking about here...
What was I saying again?
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This is my SIG. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
What are we linking to?
I always thought prefrontemporal was short-term. Is this anything new?
As my father lik@(munch munch)...
good news for pr0n hounds.
too bad it's addicting
just short-term memory?
Then the cache gets written to the hard drive for permanent storage so after you turn yourself off (in bed), the data is there the next day.
That CSS file that blocks ads
But is it L1,L2,L3?
How many KB?
What clockspeed?
Who makes the chips?
Jeez.
No Monkeys for RAM No Monkeys for RAM This DDRRAM has not been tested on animals
Let's hope it's not pipeline burst.
Perhaps this explains why my head gets extremely hot when I do my Calculus exams.
Hmm.. Makes you wonder if it's possible to overclock your own brain. Some kind of implant with electric stimuli.. Or maybe some kind of chemical. Only, I can't quite figure out how to make a decent cooling solution, and I absolutely refuse to walk around with a heatsink attached to my forehead! ..Or if you find out how to stimulate that part, maybe some good oldfashioned brain exercise to increase your cache and speed. On second thought.. Nah.. Not really geeky enough ;)
This post leaves very little to discuss.
Which is why:
Imagine, if you will, a Beowul....
If Brain has a cache somewhere, his less mentally endowed partner in crime should still get a cut.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
"16MB of memory ought to be enough for anyone".
The best planning can be done after the project completes.
I initially read this as "Brian's Cache Memory Found" and thought "hmmm, that's nice...good for him."
What has *science* done?!? -- Dr. Weird (ATHF)
An Altair MIPS 8800 at 200Khz was cutting edge back when I was manufactured.
Matter of fact I don't have any cache and I can't get upgraded due to my proprietary power supply and motherboard, not to mention my hard to find RA
This must be the area where Homer had the crayon
stuck in his brain. DOH.
I first read it as "Brian's cache memory found." and I thought 'hey, good for Brian.'
I'm at work right now. It's a good thing I don't need to be fully alert for my job.
The emperor is naked.
May be... But still I'm afraid that the size of your STWM is not going to impress your girlfriend.
- Back off man. I am a scientist
...you're assuming that the brain processes information like a P4. this isn't the case!
Because I often go upstairs and can't remember what I went there for.
When I am king, you will be first against the wall.
and the anachronisms still linger. I'm going to "let off steam" before I "blow my top".
God made my brain cache out of Rambus memory. Everyone else's is on DDR, the world has passed me by...
Today, quantum mechanics is popular with psychoanalists.
:)
Comparing a field that noone understands to a field that noone understands?
That's nothing...
I can visualise the entire bits sequence of the resulting object whilst coding... I 'see' how the processor pointers will behave, even when programming in a high-level language like obfuscated Perl.
I can draw perfect circles by mentally calculating pi with a precision of 150 digits.
I can mentally render complex fractals, from the basic Mandelbrot set to a more complex Newton's Method in the Complex Plane.
And, yes, I can do crypto backwards. Triple-DES is very easy to do mentally. Doing it backwards is just a tiny bit harder.
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Roses are #FF0000, Violets are #0000FF, find / -name '*base*' |xargs chown -R us && mv zig greatjustice
Sgt. Friday: "Are you sure this is the woman you saw in the post office?"
Burns: "Absolutely! Who could forget such a monstrous visage? She has the sloping brow and cranial bumpage of the career criminal."
Smithers: "Uh, Sir? Phrenology was dismissed as quackery 160 years ago."
Burns: (measuring Smither's head) "Of course you'd say that... you have the brainpan of a stagecoach tilter!"
"No fair, you changed the outcome by measuring it!" - Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth
Just put a Barium tracer in a bottle of tequila and drink a large quantity of it. The tequila goes straight to the short term cache and immediately erases it.
It's too bad that most brains will never use their high-speed short term memory anywhere near capacity.
Now if we could get a distributed client to take advantage of all the idle cycles...
-- $G
caffeine overclocking is cheating!
If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well it were done quickly... MacBeth
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Your girlfriend will say, "Are you hot? Or is that a gun in your brain?"
ENLARGE YOUR SHORT TERM MEMORY
If you're reading this, you know that men with small short term memory don't get ahead....
But, can't we just use a swap file?