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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 e…

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Hmmm, interesting. That hasn't been my personal experience.

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…

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 eno…

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 computat…

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 t…

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 Se…

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 thr…

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 anothe…

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…

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 r…

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 a…

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 …