Ask HN: What are your thoughts on spaced repetition? Have you heard of it?

Re:Ask HN: What are your thoughts on spaced repetition? Hav... by ColinWright on Friday December 07, 2018 @03:09PM (#18631124)

It's been discussed here on HN many, many times[0]. Personally, I'm a huge, huge fan. I've written my own version and use it extensively.

I've memorised the periodic table of elements, the poem "Ozymandias", the regnal dates of the English throne, the poem "Clancy of the Overflow", Formula One drivers and teams, the poem "Cargoes", the competitors and partners in the 2018 UK series of Strictly Come Dancing, and more.

Spaced repetition is phenomenally effective when used properly. I have somewhere an academic paper that explains the underlying model, and could probably dig it out if someone really wants it. But it's available on t'internet if you look.

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=spaced+repetition&sort=byDate&...

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Re:Ask HN: What are your thoughts on spaced repetition? Hav... by burtonator on Friday December 07, 2018 @03:31PM (#18631322)

Do you remember the title or the author?

I usually try to read anything like this that's referenced.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your thoughts on spaced repetition? Hav... by ColinWright on Friday December 07, 2018 @03:40PM (#18631403)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.07032

    Unbounded Human Learning:
    Optimal Scheduling for
    Spaced Repetition

    Siddharth Reddy,
    Igor Labutov,
    Siddhartha Banerjee,
    Thorsten Joachims

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