Memorizing a poem in a linguistics class (Denise Levertov’s “To the Reader”)

The course was called "Linguistics and Literature"; the teacher was Melissa Monroe. One day, she wrote a poem on the board: "To the Reader", by Denise Levertov. Sitting in the back row of the small lecture hall, I was pleased to see my teacher's poem on the board. Rather

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The approximately 7,500 anatomical terms are a lot for students to remember, but the task is made easier by risque mnemonics.

https://phys.org/news/2026-04-anatomy-naughtiest-mnemonics.html

#Memory #Memorization #Anatomy

Why anatomy's naughtiest mnemonics work so well

Some lovers try positions that they can't handle—I'm referring to the bones of the wrist, of course. The phrase is a classic mnemonic used to remember the eight carpal (wrist) bones—scaphoid, lunate, triquetrum, pisiform, trapezium, trapezoid, capitate and hamate—whose initials form the memorable sentence.

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7 unnecessary #Assumptions about #Life in the #Universe : Medium

#AI’s #Memorization #Crisis : Misc

Why Finding #Motivation Is Often Such a #Struggle : Misc

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AI's Memorization Crisis - The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/01/ai-memorization-research/685552/

> Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry.

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AI's Memorization Crisis

Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry.

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A quotation from Bill Watterson

CALVIN: As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget it forever. You’ve taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations.

Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1994-01-27)

More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/81087…

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Ah, the age-old quest for finding the perfect #memorization hack! 🤔 Well, here comes the #spaced #repetition article, promising to revolutionize your brain with a sprinkle of #Haskell and #nootropics. ✨ Just remember, if this method was truly foolproof, #Gwern would be running Apple by now, not blogging about it. 😂
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Spaced Repetition for Efficient Learning

Efficient memorization using the spacing effect: literature review of widespread applicability, tips on use & what it’s good for.

As always: #OpenData persistently available at:
Du, K. (2025). Reconstructing Shuffled Text (Derived Text Formats) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17198425
#CLS #CCLS25 #DTF #LiteraryComputing #LLM #Memorization
Reconstructing Shuffled Text (Derived Text Formats)

This dataset contains all the results (including reconstructed texts, similarity scores etc.) of the reconstrution of DTF texts. The work is presented at the 4th Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies, Krakow 2025. This dataset is also available in this GitHub repository. This work was created in the context of the work of the association German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) e.V. NFDI is financed by the Federal Republic of Germany and the 16 federal states, and the consortium Text+ is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) - project number 460033370. The authors would like to thank for the funding and support. Furthermore, thanks also include all institutions and actors who are committed to the association and its goals.

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