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"The amount of information we need to retain is growing rapidly"

Like the capital of Maryland? I would argue that the need to retain that type of information is in rapid decline, not rapid growth.

The likelihood of me needing to know the capital of Maryland in a situation where I don't have access to Google is minute.

Seriously, I have computers and books to offload this type of trivial information.

That said, I learned the state capitals in third grade and do and still remember them. I just question whether that was a good use of my prime learning years.

I like this author a lot. The original article she cites

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21628965.000-app-for-q...

was submitted to HN (no comments) a little while ago

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4993060

after I saw the author post it to Facebook, where she is my friend. We may as well discuss the report here in this thread.

Uhhhh... there's a gazillion products based on "spaced repetition" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition

"I haven’t seen any commercial products that put together all these different things" (emphasis mine). There appears to be more to Cerego than simple spaced repetition, but I can't tell exactly what right now because it is in limited beta.

I used "Mental Case" on the iPhone a few years ago, and it had a simple implementation of spaced repetition, but it did not adjust itself to my progress very well. I would like to find something better; if you know of anything specific besides the Wikipedia article, please post it.

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