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The first time this hit HN I did an experiment of learning the US state capitals with spaced repetition. Within a couple of weeks, I knew them by heart. So I st
by petercooper 10y ago
The first time this hit HN I did an experiment of learning the US state capitals with spaced repetition. Within a couple of weeks, I knew them by heart. So I stopped, and now can barely remember any. Memory is a funny thing! The very infrequent revisiting of stored knowledge beyond the initial learning does appear to be critical.
- chillacy 10y agoIf this image is correct then after a couple weeks the forgetting curve is still fairly steep: https://www.gwern.net/images/spacedrepetition/forgetting-curve-wired-wozniak.jpg https://www.gwern.net/images/spacedrepetition/forgetting-cur...