Maggie's Farm

We are a commune of inquiring, skeptical, politically centrist, capitalist, anglophile, traditionalist New England Yankee humans, humanoids, and animals with many interests beyond and above politics. Each of us has had a high-school education (or GED), but all had ADD so didn't pay attention very well, especially the dogs. Each one of us does "try my best to be just like I am," and none of us enjoys working for others, including for Maggie, from whom we receive neither a nickel nor a dime. Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for.

Our Recent Essays Behind the Front Page

Much Sorry with Delays
Birth, Death and All That Stuff in Between
How to Honor Labor Day, Every Day
My Yom Kippur Miracle (Repost from 2010)
Good intro to fly casting
Peach update, with pie
NYC update
Easy for you to say: To the elites on mass immigration
For NYC on 9/11, Sailors' Snug Harbor
Pickled Peaches
Water Shoes
Labor Costs in U.S.
Your "identity"
Good news about The Great Courses
Uses of Hot Pepper Jelly/Sauce, Chutneys, and Jams
A Saturday Drive to Litchfield County, CT
How to Pick a Kayak
Civilized: Fruit forks and knives
Loads of kayaking on Cape Cod
Psychology Experiments' Questionable Results

Categories


All categories

Quicksearch

Links

Blog Administration

Open login screen

RSS Readers

Add to Google

Subscribe with Bloglines

Monday, May 5. 2008

SuperMemo

How to recall everything you'll ever learn. Piotr Wozniak and SuperMemo. One quote:

SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget. Unfortunately, this moment is different for every person and each bit of information. Imagine a pile of thousands of flash cards. Somewhere in this pile are the ones you should be practicing right now. Which are they?

Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off. This pattern has long been known to cognitive psychology, but it has been difficult to put to practical use. It's too complex for us to employ with our naked brains.

It takes a software program.

Posted by Opie in Education at 09:40 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

Trackbacks
Trackback specific URI for this entry

No Trackbacks

Comments
Display comments as (Linear | Threaded)

lots and lots to go wrong with that piece of the body ..most of it very bad..
#1 Anonymous on 2008-05-05 11:16 (Reply)
You would know, Habu. Lithium might help.
#1.1 Meta on 2008-05-05 18:06 (Reply)
If there was a drug that was the equivalent of Post-it Notes, it would be bigger than Viagra.
#2 Mister Snitch (Link) on 2008-05-05 13:03 (Reply)
This looks like a neat thing.
#3 Christy on 2008-05-05 20:47 (Reply)
Hi all!
Surfed "SuperMemo" and found you here. SuperMemo is a very well documented program based on over twenty years of research into forgetting and remembering. It is amazing! Just before you forget (something important), it reminds you based on your own use of the program! It's 2000 version is just ten dollars, it's 1998 is free, but step up to the latest (SuperMemo 2006, updated early this year) for just $45. I have no stake in SuperMemo, but am a voracious reader and SM gives you the ability to read and review more than you could otherwise juggle! I am totally sold! So are over a million others!
Warning though: set it to file/level/beginner to get the simplest interface. You don't need to know everything about your car's engine to use it do you? Same here! (But if you are a power user, Supermemopedia.com has you covered)
#4 Stephen B (Link) on 2008-07-15 18:03 (Reply)

Add Comment
(Your e-mail will not show in your comment)

By commenting on this site you agree to the site rules listed here. Email
addresses will not be displayed and will only be used for email notifications.

Quick reference guide: [i] italics [/i], [b] bold [/b], [u] underline [/u],
[url] (web address) [/url]. More tips here.

Enclosing asterisks marks text as bold (*word*), underscore are made via _word_.
E-Mail addresses will not be displayed and will only be used for E-Mail notifications.

To prevent automated Bots from commentspamming, please enter the string you see in the image below in the appropriate input box. Your comment will only be submitted if the strings match. Please ensure that your browser supports and accepts cookies, or your comment cannot be verified correctly.
CAPTCHA

BBCode format allowed
 
 
A Chris Southern Consulting website.