What is your earliest consistent memory? One reason I'm drawn to cognition is that Web and distributed network models reflect aspects of how human memory as we understand today works (or doesn't)! Our brains are tasked to take distributed memory and make them accessible to us.

May 17, 2020 · 12:54 AM UTC

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We are of course as a species quite filled with errors and bugs just as the networks and systems we engineer. Memory can also be filled with errors and bugs, sometimes to the point of extremes if we are overwhelmed, traumatized and/or adept at purposeful blocking of our thoughts.
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We can often verify memory via witnesses to the event, the event being repeated enough to stand out in our minds. While all this can go with providing a clearer memory from early life, so can family/group errors - again - reflected in our networking and systems designs.
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My earliest memory is being held at the kitchen window of the for the time higher floor of our apartment on the Belt Parkway regularly by my mother. We were both in awe that was the building of the magnificent Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. I was 1 or 2 years old. NOW YOU! #memories
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My father was standing over a pan of boiling water trying to warm my milk bottle. My mother argued with him, he overheated it, and he stuck it in the fridge. I was hungry, and probably 1. It is my only memory of my parents being married and together.
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Wow! Early and potentially traumatic. I had a lot of this in my own family. Similar: My Mom was at the top of the stairs. My father was at the bottom. I was in the middle. Both asked me to come to them. I couldn't choose one over the other. I chose neither and did not move.
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Being picked up to look at monkeys in an odd store ..don't remember the stores name but I remember the monkeys. Photos trigger other memories, but that's the first imprinted on my memory with no pictures.
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Were they toy or real monkeys? That seems very primal either way. So fascinating. All sensory input of which an individual is capable relates to memory. What we see, hear, taste, touch and especially - smell are intimately linked to memory formation and recollection.
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interesting perspective Nick. I do think so many people in web development and design related Fields aren't exposed to algorithms and the reiteration of them in the context of Big Data. We created it though so it is a human construct.
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