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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.
good news for pr0n hounds.
too bad it's addicting
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 ;)
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
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.
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
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