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Use it or lose it! I’ve lost a great deal of working memory over the past few years as I’m just too reliant on offloading anything more than 2-3 bits of info o
by lmpdev 2y ago
Use it or lose it!
I’ve lost a great deal of working memory over the past few years as I’m just too reliant on offloading anything more than 2-3 bits of info onto a notepad or input box
If you ever observe a fine-dining waiter, they can easily remember and perfectly recall upwards of 20-40 bits of info (highly chunked though so likely only 5-10 I imagine). It’s just repeated practice daily.
- Asraelite 2y ago3 bits of info is a single digit. 20 bits is about 6 digits, or 2 English words. Of course needing to encode arbitrary information makes it harder than this but it still seems quite low. Are you counting bits in some other way?
- Cpoll 2y agoThis is kind of silly, because waiters don't remember orders in bits, but... If the menu has 32 items, an order of one item fits into 5 bits, without any compression. In reality, if the steak is popular, you can save more bits with Huffman coding.
- Asraelite 2y agoExactly. OP is implying that even a single item is too much for them to remember and they would need a notepad, so I must be misinterpreting what they mean by "bit".
- addsasss 2y agobit as in a piece of information, just a bit of data