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by gregdetre 1y ago
Language learning app for intermediate learners who want to practice reading and listening: - As you're reading, AI helps you with words it thinks you might not know - Highlights etymologies & mnemonics - Shows you words in their n
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by gregdetre 5y ago
Hmmm, interesting. That hasn't been my personal experience.
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by gregdetre 5y ago
The evidence suggests that brainstorming doesn't work so well - the loudest and earliest views tend to dominate. Instead, the recommendation seems to be to allow people to generate ideas in silence first. This is my approach, which has
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Why has Google open sourced TensorFlow?(blog.gregdetre.co.uk)
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Todo Zero(blog.gregdetre.co.uk)
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Justine Musk Interview on Divorce from PayPal Founder Elon Musk (2010)(marieclaire.com)
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Meet The UK Startup That’s Taking On Big Pharma – With Digital Medicine(techcrunch.com)
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Facebook & Stanford's open source toolkit for running experiments(andrewgelman.com)
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Behold Internets CatAcademy Deploys Cute Cats To Teach You Spanish(techcrunch.com)
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by gregdetre 13y ago
Cool! Drop me a line at greg at gregdetre dot co dot uk Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies ch 4-6 are the best introduction to his modeling work. I can't recommend them highly enough.
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by gregdetre 13y ago
Building on Hofstadter's models of analogy-making to build pattern recognition algorithms that work in a more human-like way. At least, that's my hope! My background is in computational neuroscience, but I'm doing this on my
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Your chance to have videos, photos and stories featured on the Guardian(guardian.co.uk)
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by gregdetre 14y ago
I've been using 1Password for a few years now. I'm not qualified to comment on the security aspects of it - I'm trusting them and Apple to take care of that. But I can comment on the superb quality of the user-facing aspects - it's a pleasu
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A letter to a prospective grad student(blog.gregdetre.co.uk)
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by gregdetre 14y ago
I'll second that. Furthermore, Sauce Labs offer servers running lots of different OS/browser combinations that you can run your Selenium tests on. In other words: - we write our Selenium tests in Python (assert that when you click, X happen
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Michael Lewis: Don't Eat Fortune's Cookie(princeton.edu)
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by gregdetre 14y ago
I'd be totally fascinated to hear about this if you ever find it! I'm greg at memrise dot com. There's lots of evidence to show that mnemonics boost recollection by a factor or three or so across a wide range of domains, abilities and time
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by gregdetre 14y ago
If you're in London, drop me a line - greg at memrise dot com. And even if you're not, take heart - some of the best people I know have been in this situation at one time or another.
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by gregdetre 15y ago
Broadly, our scheduling algorithms are based on the same ideas of spaced repetition that inspired Anki, SuperMemo and lots of others, though the devil is often in the details. http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_woznia...
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by gregdetre 15y ago
Thanks for the positivity. We have an iPhone app coming out in the next 10 days. Definitely let us know what you think of it if you try it. Sentence building is definitely on our radar, but it's a rich and thorny domain, and we want to take
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by gregdetre 15y ago
We added the garden narrative in Spring 2011. The goal was to wrap our internal model of the state of your memories in a visual metaphor to make it clearer and more vivid for you as a learner. We've improved the underlying algorithms a lot
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by gregdetre 15y ago
This is a great question. In our experience, we've found that creating your own mnemonic is usually the best way to really deeply encode a new memory. But a great mem from someone else works almost as well. And it's a lot easier to breeze a
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Memory grand master Ed Cooke gets $1M to teach his tricks at new startup(venturebeat.com)
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Techstars Boston Grad Memrise Raises $1 Million to Make Learning Simple and Fun(bostinno.com)
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Memrise raises $1.05M to make memorization a game(gigaom.com)
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$1 million in the bank to change how the world learns(thenextweb.com)
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'I love you' in 100 languages from Memrise(youtube.com)
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by gregdetre 15y ago
Forgive the plug: http://www.memrise.com/item/3190/impecunious/
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Tim Ferriss's startup Christmas deals(fourhourworkweek.com)
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by gregdetre 15y ago
That sounds promising. I'll take a look. P.S. I'm at greg at memrise dot com if you make further progress and are looking for beta testers.

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