State of the dragon's mind

[davv]

And almost two months after reaching six, I reached seven!

That more or less means that I remembered six-element long sequences of positions and sounds, and were able to recall arbitrary members of that sequence with better than 80% chance each time there was a test.

Fear my working memory :)

My statistics had been leveling off at high 5/middle 6 for a while, and the curve looked for all the world like a sigmoid - quick up then advancing slower and slower - but it seems to have picked up again lately. Now I'll just have to see if I can repeat the trick!

(And I should have posted this on Friday, but I forgot. Heh! :p )

Comments

[lhexa]

I hold some hope that my twenty-odd hours a week of working math and physics problems has a similar benefit. :)

[davv]

I should do some of that, too. Knowing how to solve something is rather different from being able to consistently and quickly solve those things :)

[lhexa]

Additionally, it is easy to be fooled in thinking you know how to solve something. You can be given a solution, follow and justify its every step, and be able to retrace the entire thing in your head, and yet still be completely helpless when a related problem is given to you to solve. This is a familiar experience to long-time mathematics students. :)