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Long-term memory
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can be characterized by two components, which they named retrieval strength and storage strength. Retrieval strength measures how likely you are to recall something right now, how close it is to the surface of your mind. Storage strength measures how deeply the memory is rooted
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One of the problems is that the amount of storage strength you gain from practice is inversely correlated with the current retrieval strength. In other words, the harder you have to work to get the right answer, the more the answer is sealed in memory.
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he user's sense of achievement is exactly what we should most distrust.
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The best time to study something is at the moment you are about to forget it
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that insight was useless in the real world.
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"that with successive repetitions, knowledge should gradually become more durable and require less frequent review
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Our capacity to learn is amazingly large. But optimal learning demands a kind of rational control over ourselves that does not come easily.
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If you skip a few days, the spacing effect, with its steady march of sealing knowledge in memory, begins to lose its force.
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"Once you get the snippets you need," Wozniak says, "your books disappear. They gradually evaporate. They have been translated into knowledge."
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Piers Youngthere 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. Unfor
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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.
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John LundinSuperMemo is a program that keeps track of discrete bits of information you've learned and want to retain
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Martin LindnerSuperMemeo predicts the future state of a person's memory and schedules information reviews at the optimal time. ... rely not merely on ... introspection, intuition, and conscious thought — but also on ... predictions about ourselves encoded in machine
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