A World at Arms is one of the non-technical recommendations from the list of best textbooks. History seems a good candidate for SR. Presumably the global approach of the book means it wouldn't be too redundant with prior knowledge of WWII history.
A more useful book would be Starting Strength which one would benefit from memorizing to maintain good form in weightlifting. But as other concrete recommendations it probably won't attract the largest audience for your experiment.
History seems a good candidate for SR.
Why? Understanding historical events isn't primarily about remembering dates. SR also always you to learn information that more complex than just dates. There's nothing that makes one field like history special.
Presumably the global approach of the book means it wouldn't be too redundant with prior knowledge of WWII history.
What is that argument supposed to mean? Reducance isn't an issue. If you already know something you just hit a few times "Very Easy".
I'm interested in trying to make better Anki decks for the LessWrong community, but I want to see how well I can actually do this first. There's a lot of knowledge out there about how to format and create decks, but it's still a decent amount of work, and there are lots of people who would benefit from Anki decks, but who wouldn't make them themselves.
In order to test my deck-creation skills, I'd be willing to do a summary + deck of a chapter or two of a book, then release them to the community for feedback.
I have two questions:
These links are fairly useful/relevant.
http://www.gwern.net/Spaced%20repetition
http://www.supermemo.com/articles/20rules.htm
As a side note: I still do intend to do this, but have been fairly busy with the start of this semester. If there's no progress by March 1st, then you should consider this to be on indefinite pause.