Re: [Phys-l] SuperMemo

[Brian Whatcott <betwys1@sbcglobal.net>]

Jeffrey Schnick wrote:
> ...a piece of software called SuperMemo that is
> supposed to help you remember things.  See:
>
> <https://carnot.physics.buffalo.edu/archives/2008/4_2008/msg00262.html> 
>
> ... I decided to give SuperMemo a go and with the exception of
> about 4 or 5 days along the way, I've been using it every day since.  I
> went with the version that came out in 1998 since it is free.  (Google
> "supermemo freeware" if interested.)  It's not magical, but I find that
> it works...   Thanks Brian.       Jeff Schnick
>   
You are most welcome. Faced with your enthusiasm, I reread Gary Wolf's 
article at the
URL in question:
<http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_wozniak?currentPage=1>
...though I had all but forgotten it. I found this paragraph specially 
interesting:

"Precisely those things that seem to signal we're learning well — easy 
performance on drills, fluency during a lesson, even the subjective 
feeling that we know something — are misleading when it comes to 
predicting whether we will remember it in the future. "The most 
motivated and innovative teachers, to the extent they take current 
performance as their guide, are going to do the wrong things," Robert 
Bjork says. 'It's almost sinister.' "

Brian W