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I recently built a spaced-repetition module in learnawesome.org to help users practice and remember not just from whatever they're reading, but also by taking n

I recently built a spaced-repetition module in learnawesome.org to help users practice and remember not just from whatever they're reading, but also by taking notes from meetings, conferences, videos etc. Wrote an article about it: https://medium.com/learn-awesome/practice-what-you-learn-using-learnawesome-orgs-flashcards-3343d57a33b0 https://medium.com/learn-awesome/practice-what-you-learn-usi... Since learnawesome.org is open-source, if anyone needs a Ruby/Rails implementation of spaced-repetition algorithm, feel free to take code from here: https://github.com/learn-awesome/learn/blob/master/app/models/flash_card.rb https://github.com/learn-awesome/learn/blob/master/app/model... Feedback and pull requests are of course welcome :)

goblin89 6y ago
> if anyone needs a Ruby/Rails implementation of spaced-repetition algorithm I noticed that at the root of the repository the license is specified as Creative Commons, requiring attribution and disallowing commercial use or derivatives, so not really anyone anyone ;) Doesn’t prevent somebody writing a SRS library in another language from taking your implementation as a good reference point, though. Thank you for sharing!
samovar_booth 6y ago
Very cool! Do folks feel like there would be value in a hosted service that provides a backend for spaced-repetition apps? It's a bit niche, but feels like there would be demand for a service that would let folks build memorization apps without having to manage their own spaced repetition implementation.
- graphpapa 6y ago
  I would consider this greatly valuable
- XFrequentist 6y ago
  I think it would be valuable, I've actually had this idea (but not the competence/bandwidth to actually build it, alas). It could become a platform for courses built around SRS, or learning materials like Michael Nielsen's mnemonic media: https://numinous.productions/ttft/ https://numinous.productions/ttft/ .
  - samovar_booth 6y ago
    Wow, thanks for that link, that's an amazing essay.

goblin89 6y ago

> if anyone needs a Ruby/Rails implementation of spaced-repetition algorithm I noticed that at the root of the repository the license is specified as Creative Commons, requiring attribution and disallowing commercial use or derivatives, so not really anyone anyone ;) Doesn’t prevent somebody writing a SRS library in another language from taking your implementation as a good reference point, though. Thank you for sharing!

samovar_booth 6y ago

Very cool! Do folks feel like there would be value in a hosted service that provides a backend for spaced-repetition apps? It's a bit niche, but feels like there would be demand for a service that would let folks build memorization apps without having to manage their own spaced repetition implementation.

graphpapa 6y ago
I would consider this greatly valuable
XFrequentist 6y ago
I think it would be valuable, I've actually had this idea (but not the competence/bandwidth to actually build it, alas). It could become a platform for courses built around SRS, or learning materials like Michael Nielsen's mnemonic media: https://numinous.productions/ttft/ https://numinous.productions/ttft/ .
- samovar_booth 6y ago
  Wow, thanks for that link, that's an amazing essay.