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   Thomas Vander Wal (vanderwal@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Feb-2024 02:25:47 JST Thomas Vander Wal

   This NPR segment was interesting, but I don't know that it was fully new. I caught it in the car and hoped for find a trascript, but nope…

   https://www.npr.org/2024/02/18/1232301993/a-new-study-finds-the-memory-systems-that-give-trivia-champions-an-edge

   The part that was interesting is people remembering trivia well and other don't. There are patterns that work for people who are prone to this type of recall, but the patterns don't seem to work for others.

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     band@octodon.social's status on Monday, 19-Feb-2024 02:25:46 JST band

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     @vanderwal a few months ago i ran a WNYC audio segment through whisper (maybe in a python REPL) and got a good transcript (maybe i can find those notes?)

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     simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 19-Feb-2024 02:51:23 JST simsa03

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     • band
     It shows parallels to the mnemonic techniques of Classical antiquity to the Renaissance, as for example laid down in the Rhetorica ad Herennium attributed to Cicero. But I'd be interested in some more neurological differences if the two memory systems mentioned in the podcast.
     
     cc @band
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