Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm

Note to self: Get Supermemo

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.

via: Wired

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LittleFish February 25, 2009 at 8:33 PM

What's up, I've been using Supermemo for three years. It's awesome. Iv'e learned Japanese with it (And I'm studying Chinese with it). All of my education now revolves around Supermemo. Check it out, it really is the magic bullet that it appears to be (But you have to go through a WHOLE LOT OF WORK and stick with it).

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