"I haven’t seen any commercial products that put together all these different things" (emphasis mine). There appears to be more to Cerego than simple spaced repetition, but I can't tell exactly what right now because it is in limited beta.
I used "Mental Case" on the iPhone a few years ago, and it had a simple implementation of spaced repetition, but it did not adjust itself to my progress very well. I would like to find something better; if you know of anything specific besides the Wikipedia article, please post it.
"The amount of information we need to retain is growing rapidly"
Like the capital of Maryland? I would argue that the need to retain that type of information is in rapid decline, not rapid growth.
The likelihood of me needing to know the capital of Maryland in a situation where I don't have access to Google is minute.
Seriously, I have computers and books to offload this type of trivial information.
That said, I learned the state capitals in third grade and do and still remember them. I just question whether that was a good use of my prime learning years.
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was submitted to HN (no comments) a little while ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4993060
after I saw the author post it to Facebook, where she is my friend. We may as well discuss the report here in this thread.
I used "Mental Case" on the iPhone a few years ago, and it had a simple implementation of spaced repetition, but it did not adjust itself to my progress very well. I would like to find something better; if you know of anything specific besides the Wikipedia article, please post it.
Like the capital of Maryland? I would argue that the need to retain that type of information is in rapid decline, not rapid growth.
The likelihood of me needing to know the capital of Maryland in a situation where I don't have access to Google is minute.
Seriously, I have computers and books to offload this type of trivial information.
That said, I learned the state capitals in third grade and do and still remember them. I just question whether that was a good use of my prime learning years.