I had a six month long "4-6 days a week" Anki habit under development before I started my most recent gig. The new work routines disrupted my Anki habit and several days ago, actually using some of the content, I realized I'd forgotten how to fingerspell a certain letter that was in one of my decks. Reading these essays reminded me of all the good reasons I had for doing Anki and I started working through my backlog of cards.
I just wanted to say thanks for the contest and the essays and everything. It is more likely than not that I'll reform my habit in my new environment. You caused the splash and I benefited from the positive ripples. Thank you to everyone involved :-)
The Spaced Repetition literature review prize for the best new review of the evidence on Spaced Repetition has ended and the judging panel has made its decision. The prize attracted entries from Duke (entry) and Gwern (entry). After reviewing the submissions separately and then discussing them together, the judging panel unanimously judged Gwern's entry to be the best.
With great pleasure, we now award Gwern the prize of $385.
Anki cards for Gwern's review are available as the shared deck "Gwern Spaced Repetition Lit Review". If you have improvements or alternate decks, post them in the comments.
The three judges, BenLowell, Guy Srinivasan and John Salvatier (me), are Seattle LessWrongers who volunteered to judge the contest.
We thank Duke and Gwern for their submissions, as well as users randomwalker, Antisuji, Dr_Manhattan, Benquo, Nick_Roy for contributing to the prize fund.