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Effective learning: Rules of formulating knowledge (1999)

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159 points swatson741 | 1 comments | 01 Sep 25 14:43 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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hereme888 ◴[01 Sep 25 17:06 UTC] No.45094504[source]▶
Too bad Piotr Wozniak (inventor of SuperMemo) is such a hermit and uncompromising of his lifestyle choices, that most of his life's work was eventually superseded by open-source solutions (Anki + FSRS).

I had tons of material in SuperMemo for years. Gave up and fully switched to Anki.

At least I'm thankful for his spaced-repetition algorithms. Also, his articles restored my love for learning and helped me confirm that school was an insane waste of time and resources.

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steve1977 ◴[01 Sep 25 19:11 UTC] No.45095654[source]▶
Last time I checked, Anki was nowhere near SuperMemo in regards to incremental reading features. Especially not with FSRS.

SuperMemo is actually almost the only reason I still keep a Windows VM.

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gobr ◴[01 Sep 25 22:39 UTC] No.45097236[source]▶
Do you use Incremental Reading? I've tried many times but I don't see the point in it, probably never got it.

Anki way makes more sense.

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1. steve1977 ◴[04 Sep 25 05:52 UTC] No.45123980{3}[source]▶
Incremental Reading in SuperMemo is essentially my default mode of reading for anything I expect to become part of "knowledge".

I don't use it for things like e-mail, news or fiction.