4.07.2008

Sort of like those last two minutes in a football game


Programmers [for example ] know that task switches take a long time. It is easier to keep going once you're at full steam . . . than to stop work and finish later. That last hour might take three hours, since you have to retrieve all of the background info from long-term memory and bring it back to the front of your mind.

[From UNDERNEWS: MULTITASKING WORSE ON IQ THAN POT]


So this babe, whatzername, I forgot, says multitasking can take 10 points off you IQ.



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