Posts Tagged ‘Memory’

The heavy duty of Windows Task Manager - Memory leak?

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 by Agro Rachmatullah

Task Manager memory leak?

My memory usage was soaring past 1.5 GB, so I closed the main culprit, a Firefox 3 RC2 with 20+ tabs opened. As usual, I thought it was time to restarts other programs as well.

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Are you smarter than a chimp? Well, test it!

Saturday, May 24th, 2008 by Agro Rachmatullah

Chimp head

This is not exactly new stuff, but I just recently found it.

Chimpanzees are known as a highly intelligent animal. They use stone and wooden tools, hunt in coordination, and can be taught limited sign language. What might be surprising is that on a particular intellectual test devised by Tetsuro Matsuzawa, young chimps outperforms university students.

Here’s a simple explanation of the test, which is actually a fun game:

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