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Re:Television viewing and cognitive decline in older age by Mnephisto on Sunday January 05, 2020 @03:42AM (#21960340)
I've long struggled with retaining what I read. It feels like I've trained my brain to enjoy the quick dopamine hits from, for example, reading short stories or, say, seeing a problem someone has that my brain can pretend to solve. Sites like Reddit or StackExchange.

Yes, maybe I interpret text in my head and build mental models, but my brain just throws them away as soon as the story is over. Ask me what I read about 5 minutes later and I swear, I won't be able to tell.

Re:Television viewing and cognitive decline in older age by jarfil on Sunday January 05, 2020 @04:23AM (#21960462)
Ingesting data and evaluating it according to some model, sounds like what a good cluster node would do. No need to permanently store neither the data nor the output on the node itself, but you might want it to update its process via learning.