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Andy Matuschak
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Really recommend this thread. Using spaced repetition to help encode knowledge rather than facts (all I thought it was good for) has profoundly changed the way I learn; grateful to Michael for the intro. This quote is one huge consequence: the feeling of lazy certitude is wild!
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The single biggest change is that memory is no longer a haphazard event, to be left to chance. Rather, I can guarantee I will remember something, with minimal effort: it makes memory a _choice_.
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Andy Matuschak
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Ever since encoding a bunch of notes from Enlightenment Now, my review sessions are a sprinkling of hope, e.g. "In the last two centuries, global extreme poverty rate has tanked from ___% to ___%, with almost half occurring in the last ___ years." (90%, 10%, 35 years)
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Kevin Hall
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Andy, may I ask, why doesn’t Khan Academy have something like this for students learning its content? It is extraordinarily powerful stuff, but it’s quite different from occasional mastery challenges with no prompt to revisit forgotten material.
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Richard
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There seem to be some distinctions made between memorizing facts and knowledge. Hmmm. What learning model are people using? Also a lot of learning tech these days seem to focus almost entirely on memorization. I lean heavily in a different direction.
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