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Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas

Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas, translated as The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, is an 1881 novel by Machado de Assis narrated by a dead man.

Memórias Sentimentais de João Miramar

Memórias Sentimentais de João Miramar (Sentimental Memoirs of João Miramar) is a 1924 novel by Oswald de Andrade, a founding work of Brazilian modernist fiction.

Memories (1995 film)

Memories (メモリーズ) is a 1995 Japanese animated sci-fi anthology by Katsuhiro Otomo with segments Magnetic Rose, Stink Bomb, and Cannon Fodder, directed by Morimoto, Okamura, and Otomo; 4K remaster released 2025.

Memories (2013 film)

Memories (മെമ്മറീസ്) is a 2013 Malayalam crime thriller written and directed by Jeethu Joseph, starring Prithviraj Sukumaran as alcoholic ex-cop Sam Alex investigating serial murders; released 9 August 2013, remade in Tamil as Aarathu Sinam.

Memories (Maroon 5 song)

"Memories" is a 2019 Maroon 5 single from the album Jordi, a tribute to late manager Jordan Feldstein built on Pachelbel's Canon in D; it peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 5 in the UK.

Memories of Matsuko (嫌われ松子の一生)

Memories of Matsuko (嫌われ松子の一生, Kiraware Matsuko no Issho) is a 2006 Japanese musical comedy-drama by Tetsuya Nakashima, adapted from Muneki Yamada's novel, starring Miki Nakatani as a woman whose tragic life is told in pop-colored flashbacks.

Memories of Murder

Memories of Murder (살인의 추억) is Bong Joon-ho's 2003 South Korean crime thriller, his second feature, adapted from Kim Gwang-rim's play about the Hwaseong serial murders; it topped the 2003 Korean box office and the case was solved in 2019.

Memories of the Alhambra (알함브라 궁전의 추억)

Memories of the Alhambra (알함브라 궁전의 추억) is a 2018–2019 tvN Korean sci-fi thriller starring Hyun Bin and Park Shin-hye, about an AR game in Granada, Spain; 16 episodes, Netflix release, criticized open ending.

Memories of Underdevelopment

Memories of Underdevelopment (Memorias del subdesarrollo) is Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's 1968 Cuban film, adapted from Edmundo Desnoes' novel, about bourgeois intellectual Sergio who stays in Havana after the Bay of Pigs; a landmark of ICAIC-era cinema.

Memories...Do Not Open

Memories...Do Not Open, The Chainsmokers' debut studio album (April 7, 2017, Disruptor/Columbia), 12 tracks; debuted No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 221,000 units, Platinum, with Paris and Something Just Like This.

Memorist (미니멀리스트가 아닌 메모리스트)

Memorist (메모리스트) is a 2020 tvN South Korean thriller drama, 16 episodes, adapted from Jae Hoo's webtoon; Yoo Seung-ho plays memory-reading detective Dong Baek with profiler Lee Se-young hunting the Eraser.

Memorization of training data in language models

Memorization of training data in language models is the phenomenon where a large language model reproduces text from its training corpus, sometimes verbatim, raising privacy, copyright, and benchmark-contamination concerns.

Memory

Memory is the faculty of encoding, storing, and retrieving information, studied through systems including episodic, semantic, working, and procedural memory. Key landmarks: Tulving's 1972 episodic–semantic distinction, Baddeley and Hitch's 1974 working memory model, Milner's patient H.M., and theories of forgetting (decay, interference, inhibition).

Memory (2022 film)

Memory is a 2022 American action thriller directed by Martin Campbell, starring Liam Neeson as a contract killer with Alzheimer's who refuses to kill a 13-year-old girl.

Memory (Cats song)

"Memory" is the signature ballad of Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1981 musical Cats, sung by Grizabella, with lyrics by Trevor Nunn after T.S. Eliot poems; Elaine Paige's single peaked at UK No. 6 and over 150 artists have recorded it.

Memory address

A memory address is an integer identifying a byte position in a processor's address space, and the MMU translates virtual addresses to physical ones through page tables.

Memory B cell

Memory B cell (MBC): long-lived mature B lymphocyte, CD19+ CD20+ MHC II+ CD138−, carrying affinity-matured immunoglobulin; about 40% of adult human B cells; generated in germinal centers and by GC-independent pathways; IgG+ and IgM+ subsets differ in recall function.

Memory bandwidth

Memory bandwidth is the rate at which a computer's memory can transfer data to or from a processor, measured in bytes per second and distinct from latency.

Memory barrier

A memory barrier, also called a memory fence, is a CPU instruction or compiler directive that constrains how load and store operations become visible to other cores and devices.

Memory card

A memory card, or flash memory card, is removable NAND flash storage used in cameras, phones, drones, and game consoles, dominated by the SD card family.

Memory clinic

Memory clinic: specialist multidisciplinary outpatient service (memory assessment service) assessing and diagnosing dementia and MCI; began in the 1980s, expanded by the UK 2009 dementia strategy, now adopting blood biomarkers.

Memory controller

A memory controller is the digital logic mediating between a processor's last-level cache and DRAM chips, converting read and write requests into command sequences and refreshes; since Intel's 2008 Nehalem it sits on the processor die.

Memory disambiguation

Memory disambiguation is the problem of determining whether a load and a store refer to the same address, so processors can execute loads speculatively and compilers can reorder memory operations.

Memory foam

Memory foam, also called temper foam or visco-elastic foam, is a polyurethane foam that molds to body heat and pressure; it was developed under a NASA contract in 1966.

Memory for Forgetfulness

Memory for Forgetfulness (Dhākira lil-Nisyān) is a prose memoir by the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish about the 1982 Israeli siege of Beirut, blending narrative, poetry, and essay.

Memory hierarchy

The memory hierarchy, also called the storage hierarchy, is the layered arrangement of computer storage from fast registers and caches to slow main memory and disk.

Memory hole

Memory hole: term from Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), a wall slot feeding documents to incinerators in the Ministry of Truth; now figurative for deliberate erasure of inconvenient records.

Memory in the Flesh

Memory in the Flesh (Dhākirat al-Jasad) is a 1993 novel by Ahlam Mosteghanemi about Khaled, an Algerian painter wounded in the liberation war; it won the 1997 Naguib Mahfouz Prize.

Memory leak

A memory leak is memory a program has allocated but can no longer release or use, so consumption grows until performance degrades or the program fails.

Memory Lost (美人为馅)

Memory Lost (美人为馅) is a 2016 Chinese crime-suspense romance web series adapted from Ding Mo's novel, starring Yang Rong and Bai Yu as detectives Bai Jinxi and Han Chen. Three 12-episode seasons aired on iQIYI from October to December 2016, closing with over 2.3 billion views.