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Short Term Memory

nirav May 8th, 2007

Found this via Braingle’s RSS feed:

We have talked about how the average short-term memory can only hold around 7 pieces of information. Here is a test to see how good your short-term memory is.

Slowly read each line once and then look away and try to recall the numbers. The first few should be easy. Once you get to 7 or 8 digits, you will start to have a very difficult time.

4 8 6
2 5 7 8
5 8 2 5 7
9 1 3 4 0 6
6 7 2 8 4 3 8
1 9 8 3 0 7 5 2
0 9 3 7 0 4 6 9 1

I could easily do upto 6 numbers, but then had to use some techniques to remember longer series. The way I normally do is visualize the numbers and repeat them out from the visual memory! This is good for short term retention! I would have to associate the numbers (rather the combination of numbers) to some funny thing for long term retention!

How far can you go?

Short visit to Trivandrum

nirav November 27th, 2006

I am waiting at the Trivandrum airport to board homebound Air Deccan flight. The flight has been rescheduled twice already, and I hope I reach home on time. It was a short trip to Trivandrum after having a great time at foss.in in Bangalore. Met a few people regarding a potential business venture. Good idea and good potential. Have to see if we can pull it off.

Took a few pictures around, and am posting them up in this free time ;-) Want to write up some notes from the meeting today and also experiences from foss.in!

views from Coffee Beanz restaurant
Boating in the river!