Another eclipse story

Read about my friend Brad's epic last-minute eclipse-chasing adventure to a remote Pacific island cratered with the remnants of 1950s US nuclear testing.

[personaldev] Expanding working memory

I've now played with the Dual N Back task for expanding working memory for ~20min a day for a couple of days.  I can now do 4-back fairly well and stumble through 5-back at a marginal level of competence.  My main complaint is that the program keeps upping the level the moment I do reasonably well even once, so I feel like it's continually pushing me into a zone of incompetence.  Based on the graphs of user performance from the initial study, the biggest boost is in the first couple of days, so if the study's correct I'll be gradually pushing my way up to 6 and 7 back if I keep this up for a couple of weeks.

I do feel by short-term memory pushing to accommodate the additional data in the harder tasks.  It doesn't feel like I'm chunking the databut perhaps I am doing so subconsciously.