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by gregdetre 15y ago
We've tried 2 or 3 existing Javascript error tracking systems in the past. None of them helped much. Performance is not the feature I care about. On the other hand, I would be delighted to pay to get more actionable information about our er
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by gregdetre 15y ago
iOS - London - full time - Memrise - http://www.memrise.com We're seed-funded, just out of TechStars Boston, and we have thousands of happy users, clamouring to hear about progress on an iPhone app. If you like the idea of a deeply creati
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Outpaced by a three year old(blog.memrise.com)
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by gregdetre 15y ago
Some forms of short-term storage are volatile, like RAM. They store by coaxing the neural activation into a stable attractor - as long as all the neurons keep firing in sequence, the memory stays alive. This is fast to create, since it does
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by gregdetre 15y ago
If you're interested in pursuing this, I'd start here (Ken was my former PhD advisor, but I still think this is a rich but comprehensible introduction): http://psych.colorado.edu/~oreilly/papers/OReillyNorman02_ti...
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by gregdetre 15y ago
It's also very, very high-dimensional. Imagine a gigantic space, where similar thoughts could be placed next to one another. Thinking would be moving around this space. Free association would be taking a step or two in a random direction. C
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by gregdetre 15y ago
There 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
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by gregdetre 15y ago
This looks interesting - we've been pretty happy with crossbrowsertesting.com until now, which is also worth a look. Here's what I'd love next - we'd write a bunch of QUnit javascript tests, put them behind a private url on our staging serv
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Ed Cooke on How to remember anything(wired.co.uk)
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by gregdetre 15y ago
Inter-subject variability is a huge problem in this kind of work. As you say, they're operating at a much larger scale than individual cells (100k-1m cells in each voxel). Likewise, some early visual processing areas are broadly organized k
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by gregdetre 15y ago
See: https://github.com/jperla/pebbles https://github.com/memrise/pebbles
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by gregdetre 15y ago
While I think you're right, this is still pretty astonishing. It's important to note that they're generalizing from a few hours of training data to millions of videos. So the classifier has to be picking up on something deep for it to be
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by gregdetre 15y ago
It's a good question. I don't think I'll have an informed opinion until we've experienced what it's like to work in this way for a while. But: - Joseph Perla's suggestions are usually good - It just feels better to me... Maybe because it's
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by gregdetre 15y ago
It's a clever idea: - In your html, you annotate objects (e.g. a button) with the '.actionable' class - Then provide a set of arguments in the html alongside, e.g. <div class="kwargs"> <!-- replace #money w
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by gregdetre 15y ago
Thanks for this code. We'll look over it carefully to see if there are some tricks that we've missed. But we've tried many libraries, and many approaches, to monitoring and debugging javascript. The browser is a much more hostile, varied an
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by gregdetre 15y ago
Hi there. I'm Greg, CTO of Memrise. Feel free to ask me about the science if you'd like. It's hard to strike a balance between advertising what we think is most important and comprehensible, and sounding too mystical. Sorry about the disapp
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Wooga on making every game a success story(slideshare.net)
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by gregdetre 15y ago
Oh, and pythonistas should check out Django Zoom (Heroku for Django) - they sit about 50 yards away in Dogpatch, and they offer an amazing 1-click deploy for Django.
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by gregdetre 15y ago
Add Memrise to the list! We just charged happily out of TechStars Boston, and we’re eagerly looking for people to join our team of neuroscientists, Grandmasters of Memory and software developers to help us reinvent learning: - Python/Django
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by gregdetre 15y ago
Memrise - Boston, MA (but remote could work) We're looking for people who dream in either Django, iOS or Javascript and want to help reinvent learning - our CEO's a Grandmaster of Memory, I'm the CTO and a Princeton PhD neuroscientist, and
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by gregdetre 15y ago
Gah, what can I say - it's our secret hot sauce... We're working on it, and will try and have it shipshape asap.
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by gregdetre 15y ago
Printable version here: http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_article.asp...
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by gregdetre 15y ago
Thanks for posting this! I'm one of the co-founders of Memrise - shout out if you have any questions.
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Research-based instruction doubles learning in large-enrollment physics class(scienceblogs.com)
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by gregdetre 15y ago
Hah! Yep, never a dull day. You can get a glimmer of things from here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/memrise/3966430619/in/photostre... and facebook.com/memrise has a few photos as well :) If there's any interest, I can try and persuade hi
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by gregdetre 15y ago
We're still young, so we've only had a few thousand people try us out for Chinese. Of those, a good number have learned hundreds of characters or more. One caveat - until recently, we've only really tackled the problem of reading characters
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by gregdetre 15y ago
> memorizing the character for "man" by associating it with a picture of a man is not efficient for learning more than the most basic characters. You're dead right - most Chinese characters are combinatorial, so it would be crazy to try
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by gregdetre 15y ago
Apologies 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...
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by gregdetre 15y ago
FYI, Ed's my co-founder at Memrise, and you can read his blog here: http://edcooke.memrise.com
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Is Apple's aesthetic fundamentally inhuman?(edcooke.memrise.com)
1 points by gregdetre 15y ago|2 comments

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