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Despite the fact that humans can only remember 7 things in short term memory at a time
That's an average, not a maximum (and, according to some recent studies, that average is more like "4" than "7"). Different people have different effective working-memory capabilities ...and, even the ones that are stuck with the average MAX_ITEMS can increase the effective number of items they can juggle by strategic chunking.
There's a lot of interesting articles on short-term, long-term and working memory. Both in how you can improve them or completely undermine them (even to the point of erasing long-term memories with common pharmaceuticals like a couple different kinds of beta-blockers). One can quickly fall into a link-hole by reading about human memory. :)
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It would be quite difficult for my to list the memory of every human on earth and in space so I think an average is a lot more efficient in this post, that was my intent. Anyway are you sure you remembered that correctly 😂.
Been using UNIX since the late 80s; Linux since the mid-90s; virtualization since the early 2000s and spent the past few years working in the cloud space.
Location
Alexandria, VA, USA
Education
B.S. Psychology from Pennsylvania State University
That's an average, not a maximum (and, according to some recent studies, that average is more like "4" than "7"). Different people have different effective working-memory capabilities ...and, even the ones that are stuck with the average
MAX_ITEMScan increase the effective number of items they can juggle by strategic chunking.There's a lot of interesting articles on short-term, long-term and working memory. Both in how you can improve them or completely undermine them (even to the point of erasing long-term memories with common pharmaceuticals like a couple different kinds of beta-blockers). One can quickly fall into a link-hole by reading about human memory. :)
It would be quite difficult for my to list the memory of every human on earth and in space so I think an average is a lot more efficient in this post, that was my intent. Anyway are you sure you remembered that correctly 😂.
I'm one of the people afflicted with the "remembers too much" problem.