gregdetre

10 ms·

61.
by gregdetre 16y ago
Quizlet's awesome. I take my hat off to Andrew Sutherland for making it all happen while working as a full-time high school and university student. It's not easy.
62.
by gregdetre 16y ago
P.S. If you have any questions for Ed Cooke, I'll ask him to pop by here later and respond.
63.
Secrets of a memory champion(blog.memrise.com)
1 points by gregdetre 16y ago|2 comments
64.
by gregdetre 16y ago
I'll be the first to admit that the best ideas here aren't feasible in the foreseeable future. But what I like about it is that this technology would make us more, rather than less, human.
65.
Can your satnav do this?(edcooke.memrise.com)
5 points by gregdetre 16y ago|2 comments
66.
Look Out, Rosetta Stone: Memrise Has a New Vision for Learning Languages(dailyfinance.com)
6 points by gregdetre 16y ago|4 comments
67.
by gregdetre 16y ago
heyhey zeemonkee, drop me a line if you're interested in talking about remote working. g
68.
by gregdetre 16y ago
I'm a friend of Ed's, and his approach to memory & perception have made a hilarious difference to my mental world. But he hasn't yet come up with a way to stop his keys & wallet from falling out of his pockets on the train.
69.
Tips from a Grandmaster of Memory on never losing your keys again(blog.memrise.com)
14 points by gregdetre 16y ago|11 comments
70.
by gregdetre 16y ago
On the Mac, Self Control every time! It'll block access to domains you define for a set period, e.g. news.ycombinator.com, email. http://visitsteve.com/made/selfcontrol/ http://gregdetre.blogspot.com/2009/10/self-control.html The only d
71.
How tweets and the web can boost the power of long-form thinking(collisiondetection.net)
1 points by gregdetre 16y ago|0 comments
72.
What Makes a Great Teacher?(theatlantic.com)
1 points by gregdetre 16y ago|0 comments
73.
Pretty Women Make Simple Men(psychologytoday.com)
3 points by gregdetre 16y ago|0 comments
74.
The secret behind the woman who can remember everything(blog.memrise.com)
2 points by gregdetre 16y ago|0 comments
75.
Tech Start-Up 100: applications now open(telegraph.co.uk)
4 points by gregdetre 16y ago|0 comments
76.
“Done and deployed” he cried, held aloft by the delirious party-goers(blog.memrise.com)
1 points by gregdetre 16y ago|0 comments
77.
by gregdetre 16y ago
This is a delight! There's only one more thing this needs to be perfect. I'd love to be able to calibrate it to me, by aiming for the bullseye 10 times and telling it what I hit. That way, it could assess my expertise, and suggest what I sh
78.
by gregdetre 16y ago
And I only half-agree that version control isn't important in writing. Certainly in (collaborative) non-fiction (e.g. science papers), most of the same merging, cutting, reinstating and backtracking that helps with programming would be of h
79.
by gregdetre 16y ago
Jon Udell's narrated animation of the collaborative process behind Wikipedia Heavy Metal Umlaut article is hilarious and captivating in a similar way: http://jonudell.net/udell/gems/umlaut/umlaut.html He makes the case that a million tiny
80.
Can your iPhone make you more entertaining than you already are?(gregdetre.blogspot.com)
10 points by gregdetre 16y ago|0 comments
81.
How to beat an fMRI lie detector(gregdetre.blogspot.com)
1 points by gregdetre 16y ago|0 comments
82.
How is the brain like an orchestra?(gregdetre.blogspot.com)
3 points by gregdetre 16y ago|0 comments
83.
What's blowin' in the wind?(gregdetre.blogspot.com)
2 points by gregdetre 16y ago|0 comments
84.
Dropbocumentation(gregdetre.blogspot.com)
1 points by gregdetre 16y ago|0 comments
85.
by gregdetre 17y ago
The actual paper is here: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu... I'm not convinced about the Reuters article's framing of things in terms of relaxedness - the paper doesn't seem to make any mention of emotional st
86.
by gregdetre 17y ago
It looks like they were doing single-cell recording in humans. Almost certainly, these were epileptic patients being prepped for surgery, because that's almost the only time when scientists have access to data from invasive recording techni
87.
by gregdetre 17y ago
if the number of users drops below 50, will the bus explode?
88.
by gregdetre 17y ago
Yup! The question was: how might we move to a tag-based infrastructure while preserving our current interface , so that all of our existing applications and File/Open dialogs would still work.
89.
by gregdetre 17y ago
Hey Epochwolf, I hope I'm not misunderstanding you, but I think that's exactly what I was trying to suggest in the article. The idea was that you could have: - school/2008-fall/ecology and that would be identical to: - ecology/2008-fall/sch
90.
I don't believe in luck(gregdetre.blogspot.com)
1 points by gregdetre 17y ago|0 comments

More ›