The Ebbinghaus-Wozniak Effect
Apr. 29th, 2008 03:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lprovenThis is not the Wozniak you were expecting.
Fascinating piece in Wired (of which I'm not normally a big fan; I never ever buy the paper version, which has all the attributes of gosh-wow Californianness that I most despise. Some of its blogs are pretty good, though, such as Leander Kahney's Cult of Mac.) As bOINGbOING said: "Gary Wolf wrote a terrific profile of Piotr Wozniak, creator of a memory program called SuperMemo."
This chap has done exhaustive (decades-long) personal research in the field of human memory & learning and as a result has produced a series of programs to optimize not memorization but revision. It's a long piece but worth a read.
Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm
There's also much interesting reading on the agreeably-Spartan (to me - I generally detest fancy interactive websites) Supermemo.com.
Fascinating piece in Wired (of which I'm not normally a big fan; I never ever buy the paper version, which has all the attributes of gosh-wow Californianness that I most despise. Some of its blogs are pretty good, though, such as Leander Kahney's Cult of Mac.) As bOINGbOING said: "Gary Wolf wrote a terrific profile of Piotr Wozniak, creator of a memory program called SuperMemo."
This chap has done exhaustive (decades-long) personal research in the field of human memory & learning and as a result has produced a series of programs to optimize not memorization but revision. It's a long piece but worth a read.
Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm
There's also much interesting reading on the agreeably-Spartan (to me - I generally detest fancy interactive websites) Supermemo.com.
