Spaced Repetition: Beginner Guide/FAQ

Spaced repetition is best introduced in the words of Gwern: it is

a mechanical golem that will never forget, and never let us forget whatever we chose to.

If this was a medical treatment or lessons from a personal coach, it would be priced so that only high-ranking politicians, CEOs of big companies, and Silicon Valley programmers could afford it. But spaced repetition is available to anyone, at a cost of only teens of minutes a day. More people ought to use it, but some do not because they harbour misunderstandings about it. Today, we’ll clear some of these up.

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