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Memrise Blog
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Memrise Blog is the company blog at blog.memrise.com. Since 2011, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Memrise's blog for its explanation of how memory is stored in the brain. One commenter said the posts described it well and that the actor/play analogy was memorable.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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What Hacker News says?
Thank you for describing it so well here. [ http://blog.memrise.com/2011/05/how-is-memory-stored-in-brai... ] The actor/play analogy worked memorably well. Haven't heard of memrise before. Yet, having read your posts, I can't wait to try it out.
Comment linking /2011/05/how-is-memory-stored-in-brain.html
on “Ask HN: What data structure does our brain use?”Submitted Learn to read a sentence of Chinese in 3 minutes as a story · 198 points
HN discussionThere are so many differences that one's standard intuitions as a computer scientist can be very misleading... I wrote on this elsewhere: http://blog.memrise.com/2011/05/how-is-memory-stored-in-brai... http://blog.memrise.com/2011/05/how-are-brains-different-fro... For instance: - Storage and parallel computation in the brain are very expansive and cheap, so the brain prefers to store rather than compute where it ca…
Comment linking /2011/05/how-are-brains-different-from-hard.html
on “Ask HN: What data structure does our brain use?”Submitted Tips from a Grandmaster of Memory on never losing your keys again as a story · 14 points
HN discussionApologies for shilling, but give us a try - this is exactly the problem we're trying to help people with: http://blog.memrise.com/2011/03/why-chinese-is-getting-easie...
Comment linking /2011/03/why-chinese-is-getting-easier-and.html
on “Forget Me Not - How to win the U.S. memory championship.”Submitted Outpaced by a three year old as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted 3 reasons why learning a language is like teaching 2000 toddlers to ride a bike as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The secret behind the woman who can remember everything as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Secrets of a memory champion as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted “Done and deployed” he cried, held aloft by the delirious party-goers as a story · 1 points
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