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The true history of spaced repetition - SuperMemo

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The popular history of spaced repetition is full of myths and falsehoods. This text is to tell you the true story. The problem with spaced repetition is that it became too popular for its own effective replication. Like a fast mutating virus it keeps jumping from application to application, and tells its own story while accumulating errors on the way. This is the story of how I solved the problem of forgetting. I figured out how to learn efficiently. Modesty is a waste of time, therefore I will add that I think I actually know how to significantly amplify human intelligence. In short: memory underlies knowledge which underlies intelligence. If we can control what we store in memory and what we forget, we can control our problem solving capacity. In a very similar way, we can also amplify artificial intelligence. Its a great relief to be able to type in those proud words after many years of a gag order imposed by commercial considerations. Back in the early 1990s, I thought I knew how t

Share Dr Piotr Wozniak, June 2018 Contents Introduction 1985: Birth of SuperMemo 1986: First steps of SuperMemo 1987: SuperMemo 1.0 for DOS 1988: Two component of memory 1989: SuperMemo adapts to user memory 1990: Universal formula for memory 1991: Employing forgetting curves 1994: Exponential nature of forgetting 1995: Hypermedia SuperMemo 1997: Employing neural networks 1999: Choosing the name: “spaced repetition” 2005: Stability increase function 2014: Algorithm SM-17 Exponential adoption of spaced repetition Summary of memory research The anatomy of failure and success…

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