[Jach]

> Cooke says that returning to a memory is crucial, and the Memrise has algorithms that learn when a student needs a friendly reminder, via an email say, to recall a certain lesson.

Are these algorithms any different than the ones used by Anki et al? I'd be surprised if they were. The novel thing for the isolated case (gamification is interesting but I'm not sure how general that is for helping) seems to be thickly layering on the mnemonic tricks instead of relying on pure flash-card memorization of information, is this correct?

[gregdetre]

Broadly, our scheduling algorithms are based on the same ideas of spaced repetition that inspired Anki, SuperMemo and lots of others, though the devil is often in the details.

http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_woznia...

However, neither Anki nor SuperMemo enrich and speed up your learning with mems (crowd-sourced mnemonics), which provide a huge and well-documented boost to your learning rate and retention.

Perhaps most of all though, we've worked really hard to make Memrise a really happy learning experience. It's harder to put numbers on that, but hopefully you can feel it when you try it!