Brain dump

The phrase brain dump refers to these things:

1. Generally, the transfer of a large quantity of information from one person to another or to a storage and retrieval medium is referred to as a 'brain dump'.
2. In slang, it can describe a hurried explanation of a system, job, skillset, or other software engineering subject.
3. In computing, the phrase describes the taking of a snapshot of the internal state of a knowledge database for transfer or archiving purposes. Thus, the copying of any dataset might be called a 'brain dump' if its contents could be colloquially referred to as a 'brain'.

See also

• Core dump
• Expert system
• Stream of consciousness writing