Nintil - Massive input and/or spaced repetition

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Summary In some domains, and for some applications, exposure to a lot of material is superior to spaced repetition to learn that domain. I've written in the past a couple of blogposts on education and learning: these two on Bloom's two sigma and mastery learning , and spaced repetition systems (SRS) are the main examples. Something I noticed today is that on the one hand I have these blogposts, and I find SRS valuable in theory but in practice what I do is something quite different: massive input. I refer to this concept in passing in Scaling tacit knowledge The interesting thing of language l

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