"Memory athletes" and the techniques they use [audio]

Re:"Memory athletes" and the techniques they use [audio] by whymauri on Thursday May 13, 2021 @06:48PM (#27148461)

I once met Jim Karol who uses recursive associative mnemonics to form a n-dimensional associative memory matrix. Most people have a 1-D or 2-D associative matrix, but Jim Karol can basically store associative memory with log(n) associative lookups.

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Re:"Memory athletes" and the techniques they use [audio] by austinjp on Thursday May 13, 2021 @07:19PM (#27148722)

Nice. Can you explain the recursive aspect? A quick Google reveals only teaser articles and ads for books. I'm interested because years ago I started developing a "nested" system, although I never got it adequately fleshed out.

For the curious, mine was about dates. 31 words for days in the month, 12 for months. The secret sauce, though, is practice. I never did the practice, so I remain limited to the first three dates I tried to commit to memory with my system. But: I can still remember them! :)

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Re:"Memory athletes" and the techniques they use [audio] by totetsu on Friday May 14, 2021 @12:18AM (#27150651)

I kind of do that sometimes with little framed vignettes leading to other memory palaces inside stations of memory palaces.

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