Once I'd reached the point where I could squirrel away more than 30 digits a minute in memory palaces, I still only sporadically used the techniques to memorize the phone numbers of people I actually wanted to call. I found it was just too simple to punch them into my cell phone.
In computer animation, every detail has to be thought out, designed, modeled, shaded, placed and lit. The more you add, the more computer memory you need.
... for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.
I like to remember phone numbers because it keeps your brain active. If you don't use it, you lose it.
I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it and then you let it go because you can't waste many brain cells on hours thinking about it.
Through using our memory to its fullest we can unlock the vast reservoir of human potential that isn't currently being used.
Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.
Any given program will expand to fill all available memory.
It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.
Learning is often spoken of as if we are watching the open pages of all the books which we have ever read, and then, when occasion arises, we select the right page to read aloud to the universe.
The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.
The future will use and dispose of the memories of people that we knew as history sees fit.
