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Comment Additional safeguards implemented (Score 1) 61

In the Singapore Ministry Of Health official news are the Additional Safeguards in Disease Registries :
(13.) Since 2016, additional safeguards against mishandling of information by authorised staff have been put in place. For example, a two-person approval process to download and decrypt Registry information was implemented in September 2016, to ensure that the information cannot be accessed by a single person. A workstation specifically configured and locked down to prevent unauthorised information removal was designated for processing of sensitive information from the HIV Registry. The use of unauthorised portable storage devices on official computers was disabled in MOH in 2017, as part of a government-wide policy.

Comment Re:Your boss is an idiot. (Score 1) 716

The brick wall analogy is completely nonsensical. When you are done building a brick wall, you can tell that it is done. There are no edge cases, requirement changes or memory leaks that can unexpectedly make it fall over.

This reminds me of the movie "The Bridge on the River Kwai": the part of the river chosen for the construction of the bridge had a too muddy bottom, so they abandon the construction of the first bridge for a second one on more stable grounds. Otherwise the bridge would have collapsed at the first train passage. Well, then you watch the movie and find out that...

The analogy software-construction has plenty of interpretations.

Comment Memory techniques involving visualization (Score 1) 206

Once during demo of a memory-techniques school, they made the audience learn a sequence of 20 or 30 words by creating a story based on visualizing those objects in your mind while they interact in the desired sequence (like a video).

In a book another described technique is to visit places (outdoor and indoor) to get used to them and create a DB of places to fill with the things you want to memorize.

If the proportion between a word and an image/video is similar in computers and brains... how faster than normal would a person fill her own memory? Will we be 40 and remember the shopping list of every week in the last 20 years, but won't be able to memorize anything new?

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