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Fascinating that you're measuring milliseconds where I'm having context switches that cost me minutes to hours to days.
by darthrupert 2y ago
Fascinating that you're measuring milliseconds where I'm having context switches that cost me minutes to hours to days.
- userbinator 2y agoI don't think this game is all that representative of context-switching overhead, as my 4th attempt gives evidence that this improves quickly with practice: RT in pure trials: 422ms RT in mixed trials: 611ms Mixing cost: 189ms RT in task-repeat trials (in mixed blocks): 611ms RT in task-switching trials (in mixed blocks): 602ms Task-switch cost: -9ms The "mixed trials" are naturally slower because I'm having to recognise 4 patterns instead of 2, but only by ~50%.
- dtran 2y agoWhoa, a negative task-switch cost! I didn't take it multiple times, but it makes sense that having practice at this specific task probably improves both your overall response times and maybe more specifically improves the different trials. What I'm curious about is whether we also get specifically good at say, task-switching between a code editor and say, Stack Overflow, over time