ChristianKl comments on 2012 Less Wrong Census Survey: Call For Critiques/Questions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ChristianKl 19 October 2012 12:27:46PM 7 points [-]

Do you use Spaced Repetition System learning (Anki, Supermemo etc)?

-Yes

-No

-I have never heard of Spaced Repetition System learning.

Comment author: gwern 19 October 2012 03:43:16PM 1 point [-]

Mnemosyne would be a better parenthetical example than Supermemo: few people actually use Supermemo these days.

Comment author: Dr_Manhattan 19 October 2012 09:29:48PM 0 points [-]

g/Mnemosyne/Anki/s ?

Comment author: [deleted] 21 October 2012 07:03:02PM 0 points [-]

Why not mention all three?

Comment author: gwern 19 October 2012 09:35:33PM 0 points [-]

As far as I've been able to tell, Anki is substantially more popular than Mnemosyne: http://www.gwern.net/Spaced%20repetition#popularity

Comment author: Zaine 21 October 2012 03:17:03AM *  0 points [-]
  • I've been meaning to start/resume using SRS programs.

  • I practice manual SRS.

  • I have a photographic memory and thus have no need to use SRS learning.

Comment author: ema 21 October 2012 08:13:38AM 2 points [-]

people with a photographic memory still could use SRS for learning sounds.

Comment author: ChristianKl 21 October 2012 01:55:24PM 0 points [-]

I have a photographic memory and thus have no need to use SRS learning.

Do you know someone who would answer "Yes" to the question? From my understanding of the way the memory of those people works I'm not sure that SRS wouldn't help them.

Comment author: Zaine 21 October 2012 06:41:36PM *  0 points [-]

I know one person for whom 'Yes' would hold true; such people are rare exceptions, though, indeed.

Comment author: [deleted] 19 October 2012 11:05:27PM 0 points [-]

-Sometimes

Comment author: AlanCrowe 19 October 2012 09:45:42PM 0 points [-]

I use the basic idea, refreshing newly learned stuff often at first and less often as time goes by, or I feel the memories consolidate. How do you want me to answer the question? Are you asking about the use of a computer based tools to help implement spaced repetition? Are you asking about using the technique, perhaps rather informally?