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Working memory is tremendously useful for a wide range of intellectual tasks. Imagine a CPU with an eternal spinning-rust hard drive and no cache, vs a compute
by gowld 7y ago
Working memory is tremendously useful for a wide range of intellectual tasks.
Imagine a CPU with an eternal spinning-rust hard drive and no cache, vs a computer with a 10x slower CPU and a 4MB cache. Which do you thing is more powerful at solving problems?
- anoncake 7y agoOf course working memory is important and should be tested in an IQ test. But so is being able to use tools to augment yourself and work around your weaknesses. And having a specialized ability to memorize numbers is quite useless.