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> I didn’t hear of spaced repetition in school, but isn’t flash cards essentially the same thing? No, they're completely orthogonal IMO. SRS is a scheduler; w
by michaelcampbell 5y ago
> I didn’t hear of spaced repetition in school, but isn’t flash cards essentially the same thing?
No, they're completely orthogonal IMO. SRS is a scheduler; when do you see a piece of information, based on how well you remembered it the last time you saw it.
The card is just the info itself. Going through a set of flashcards every day is not SRS; it completely misses the first S.
Many SRS' USE flashcards, but the important bit is the scheduling.
- kaba0 5y agoWell yeah, in themselves cards don’t have the S, but even their most basic basic usage of separating wrongly answered ones from the rest and repeating those again adds it back to a degree. There are also versions where you put successfully repeated cards into the next category, repeating them 2/4/8… days until it “matures”.