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There is an amazing slightly older longform article on the creator of supermemo (the original spaced repetition software, although the concept of course comes f
by summarite 10y ago
There is an amazing slightly older longform article on the creator of supermemo (the original spaced repetition software, although the concept of course comes from a German psychology pioneer of a few centuries ago (Helmholtz i think?)). The guy throws his whole life in the software, eg every news article, email, ... Is just processed with cloze scripts (= "fill the [...]") And his aim is to remember everything. The supermemo site also has a lot of fascinating articles written by the guy, really worth looking at if the topic interests you.