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What is an SRS, Really?

Monday, May 19, 2008

An interesting post over on the All Japanese All The Time blog, revisiting Spaced Repetition Systems, or SRS.
Khatzumoto is making an observation about how certain knowledge makes its way into our long term memory that I would like to extend: 
Why do you remember your own name? Because your mother sat you down one day and [...]

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What goes into an SRS?

Monday, April 7, 2008

From Nihongo Notes:
If you read or hear anything in Japanese add it to Anki. Everything! Names, places, sentences, signs.
Keep it up. Try not to miss a day or you will begin to forget the cards. You don’t want to end up with hundreds of cards to review as it will only demotivate you. Try to [...]

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The Problem With SRS

Monday, March 24, 2008

For those who don’t know, an SRS is a Spaced Repetition System. It creates longer and longer intervals between reviews when you get the answer correct. The idea is to review just before you forget, to encourage long-term memory retention.
And in this technical statement from supermemo’s Theoretical aspects of spaced repetition in learning, [...]

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