Announcing an experimental new tool for thought
@michael_nielsen and I have been wondering: what happens if we take powerful ideas from cognitive science and deeply integrate them into explanations? Our first experiment in a new "mnemonic" medium:https://quantum.country/qcvc
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Then, the next day, you'll get your invitation to your first review session. A few minutes of study, repeated over about 20 sessions over the next year, and you'll remember everything forever. It feels like cheating. One reader: "The bang for the buck is extraordinary."pic.twitter.com/j2JbYkcmM1
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Lots more to share: how the mechanics affect the prose and vice-versa; how we designed the interactions to be super light-weight; the impact of self-assessment on the design; conveying exponential progress; exploring new media via serious—not toy—content; etc. Stay tuned!

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But why read the text anyway? I’d jump straight to the quiz and learn there.
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It's a very interesting notion. I have a bunch of sketches trying quite hard to "invert" the medium in that way—to make the cards the primary element, and the prose light or absent. We couldn't make it work (yet). The prose still does several important jobs on the first read.
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