Comment by lll-o-lll
3 days ago
Can working memory actually be improved as this article suggests? Links to apps to change my life please.
3 days ago
Can working memory actually be improved as this article suggests? Links to apps to change my life please.
Absolutely. I find having a notebook open when writing/debugging code is a godsend. Just keeping a scratchpad of design notes/ideas/tests while I work let's me keep a lot more in my head. Think of it as increasing your level 1 cache. :)
A notebook is how you compensate for hitting the limit of working memory, and everyone can easily hit their limit. This is especially the case in software, where it is trivial to write code thats inter-leavings cause working memory overflow. That’s why good abstractions are so crucial; the human brain has a teeny tiny stack.
That’s not what this is about though, it’d still be nice if possible, to increase the stack size. The following is a link to “Simple Made Easy”, by Rich Hickey; which is the best talk I’ve ever seen on complexity in software and how to manage it. https://youtu.be/SxdOUGdseq4?feature=shared
See: https://gwern.net/dnb-faq#n-back-improves-working-memory and https://brainscale.net/