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Spaced repetition systems have gotten better

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636 points domenicd | 2 comments | 18 May 25 11:42 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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bearjaws ◴[18 May 25 12:34 UTC] No.44020922[source]▶
Spaced repetition has been all the rage for 20 years now.

Dozens of apps, thousands of lectures, and it turns out its not really a silver bullet.

There's nothing really wrong with it, it's just that people tend to fall off the same way they do on any other education pattern.

A couple years ago I was thinking "If Google and Apple really cared about kids they would make a spaced repetition unlock system", where by you have to make note cards every week and then have to answer correctly to get into your phone. (obviously requires some bypass system, other rules, etc)

You could probably jury rig it with a popup that comes up after you unlock, but people would never install it anyway.

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huhkerrf ◴[18 May 25 12:36 UTC] No.44020936[source]▶
If you're expecting it to be a silver bullet, then you're in for a bad time.

You still have to do the work.

It's a lever or a pulley, nothing more.

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jgalt212 ◴[18 May 25 12:51 UTC] No.44021036[source]▶
> You still have to do the work

Spaced repetition is doing the work.

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1. antasvara ◴[18 May 25 13:11 UTC] No.44021171{3}[source]▶
The "work" is actively trying to recall the information on the card. Spaced repetition is just a more efficient way of doing this than (for example) cycling through every single card, every single day.
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2. aswegs8 ◴[18 May 25 19:53 UTC] No.44023904[source]▶
...and more efficient than reading long-form text or course material