Re:Context switching costs more than we give it credit for
by taeric on Sunday January 17, 2021 @10:49PM
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There is a great interview with Feynman where he recounts that he could count while reading, and a colleague called shenanigans. So, they did some experiments together. Fun watch, but seems in contradiction to your point. :(
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Re:Context switching costs more than we give it credit for
by lrobinovitch on Monday January 18, 2021 @12:25AM
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If I recall correctly he talked further about this in one of his autobiographies (Surely You’re Joking, Mr Feynman possibly?).
It was about the repeatability of counting to a minute, and he experimented on the difference between seeing a timer tick in your minds eye and hearing a count increment in your head.
Re:Context switching costs more than we give it credit for
by mkl on Monday January 18, 2021 @04:02AM
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It was What Do You Care What Other People Think?.
He had been experimenting with what he could do while counting, and found he couldn't count while talking, but could count while reading. John Tukey didn't believe him, and thought it should be the other way around. It turned out Tukey and Feynman counted completely differently, Tukey by visualising and Feynman using internal speech, and so Tukey could count while talking, but not while reading. So, not the same person doing both methods.