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Augmenting Long-term Memory
One day in the mid-1920s, a Moscow newspaper reporter named Solomon Shereshevsky entered the laboratory of the psychologist Alexander Luria. Shereshevsky's boss at the newspaper had noticed that Shereshevsky never needed to take any notes, but somehow still remembered all he was told, and had suggested he get his…
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AI & Machine LearningLife, Learning & Writing2018
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| Jul 5, 2018 | Augmenting Long-term Memory by rrherr | 202 | 36 |
| Dec 17, 2023 | Augmenting long-term memory (2018) by MovingTheLimit | 90 | 25 |
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