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Cake day: August 1st, 2023

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  • No, please don’t share this. This is not science, this is trash masquerading as science. This is merely the author’s subjective experience with a bunch of kooky ideas and analogies that just make zero sense. There was no real methodology. No control groups. No actual measurements.

    Here is a excerpt of this shitty paper demonstrating this:

    “The subject engaged in several months of training. By analogy, if the human brain is considered as a computer, at the initial stage it functions like a CPU with a 2KB cache.After a certain period of training, the CPU is strengthened and the cache is expanded to 3KB ; with further practice, both are enhanced, with the cache reaching 4KB, and eventually to 5KB as the duration of learning increases. With daily practice, this capacity grows gradually, though the rate of improvement and the resulting outcomes vary across individuals (in this case, the subject’s IQ was above 140).”

    This weird ass naked assertion with no supporting evidence is so completely wrong on so many levels I don’t even know where to begin. The brain is not a computer. CPU cache in such tiny amounts on a modern processor is laughably out of touch and makes it obvious the author is talking out of his ass. The self-brag on his IQ in parentheses is just icing on the cake of this narcissistic rambling.








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    10 days ago

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    Sometimes the headline and the article sensationalize the actual research. Sometimes the study is flawed in some way, but the journo doesn’t actually catch it. And then of course because the news site wants readers to not bounce, they won’t even link the study. So frustrating and obnoxious.