Memory caching. The human edition
One of the things I don’t “know” are how many ounces are in a litre. It is something that I don’t use on a regular basis, and is easily accessible via a quick web search. Perhaps a better question is “should this be something that I know off the top of my head?”. What do we mean by “knowing” in the first place? Is it enough to know where to find the knowledge? This post is about how I like to think of our human brains working in cached layers to deal with information overload.