Alan Kay on remembering what he's read: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=118092
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That's interesting. The memory palace technique features prominently in Moon Walking with Einstein book. Don't think it's very important for general memorisation though.
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Agreed. Not sure how I feel about it, but seems cheap enough to experiment with.
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I like the movie analogy.
I wonder how much of the recall that people struggle with today is not so much “have I seen this before and what happens next” but “what year was this movie made and what are the real names of the stars and also of the director and screenwriter”
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I often play this game when watching movies with my housemates:
"Where have we seen this familiar-looking but not famous actor before?"
That's when I realized I have an above average sense of recognizing faces & pinpointing the shows the actor was in
Hopeless w names tho