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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish34•1 year agoRam is closest to human short term memory Our minds dump its contents to permanent memory when we sleep
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish22•1 year agoMy ram just dumps its contents to whatever it feels like whenever it fancies like a rogue waste disposal truck that goes around neighborhoods collecting trash and then just delivering it to other random homes.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•1 year agoBut we have multiple working memories with different saving times.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•1 year agoHave you heard of CPU and GPU caches and registers? Even the storage in a PC has cache(s).
Ram is closest to human short term memory
Our minds dump its contents to permanent memory when we sleep
My ram just dumps its contents to whatever it feels like whenever it fancies like a rogue waste disposal truck that goes around neighborhoods collecting trash and then just delivering it to other random homes.
But we have multiple working memories with different saving times.
Have you heard of CPU and GPU caches and registers? Even the storage in a PC has cache(s).