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• nwm 26 Apr 2026 15:43 UTC

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  in reply to: kbear’s comment on: Some data on the shape of the for­get­ting curve

  Ah! Right. Sorry for my error!

  I do agree that the data are, for obvious domain reasons, not linear. If you have some reason I don’t account for to think that they’re exponential, I’d be grateful to know it.

• nwm 26 Apr 2026 12:52 UTC

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  in reply to: XelaP’s comment on: Notes on spaced rep­e­ti­tion scheduling

  Interesting. I am directionally opposite: half an hour of reviewing is very pleasant for me and is comparable to a much shorter period of work-work.

  For me, though, improving the new-card experience and the software generally is an important part of making reviews feel pleasant and smooth. I want my spaced repetition environment to be a cozy, ergonomic corner of my world. Using nice software, and studying flashcards that benefited from a good new-card experience (so that I could write them well, include appropriate images, and so on), is part of that.

• nwm 26 Apr 2026 12:49 UTC

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  in reply to: kbear’s comment on: Some data on the shape of the for­get­ting curve

  Yes, of course. (Do you see that the y-axis starts at .8?)

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• nwm 20 Jul 2025 1:08 UTC

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  in reply to: Kemp’s comment on: Notes on spaced rep­e­ti­tion scheduling

  It depends a lot on the structure of what I’m trying to learn, but very often 2 to 5.

• nwm 19 Jul 2025 17:55 UTC

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  in reply to: Kemp’s comment on: Notes on spaced rep­e­ti­tion scheduling

  That idea is definitely in the air, and for good reason. Anything (reasonable) we can do to prevent “overfitting” is probably worth considering. But here’s one thing that took me a long time to realize: instead of showing content in forms X and Y (chosen randomly), we can just have two different cards, one each for X and Y. That is, in a good system, it should be cheap enough to add cards that we can get some of the benefit of random variation just by having lots of somewhat different cards.

  This is better for stuff like “someone famous is known by several names and we want to learn their year of birth” than for stuff like “I want to learn how to do simple integrals of a given form,” but it’s worth keeping in mind.

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