There was a recent post titled "Spaced Repetition Systems Have Gotten Way Better": https://domenic.me/fsrs/
It mentions this:
But what’s less widely known is that a quiet revolution has greatly improved spaced repetition systems over the last couple of years, making them significantly more efficient and less frustrating to use. The magic ingredient is a new scheduling algorithm known as FSRS, by Jarrett Ye.
I was skeptical, but I tried getting into spaced repetition again and I can say that the FSRS algorithm feels just magical. I often find that I'm just barely able to recall the other side of the card, which is exactly the goal of spaced repetition software. And in general, it doesn't feel like it wastes my time nearly as much as older scheduling algorithms did.
So, I was wondering whether this is usable in anki, and indeed, there appears to be a simple setting for it without even having to install a plugin, as described here in 4 easy steps. I'll see if it makes a notable difference.
Not so relatedly, this made me realize a connection I hadn't really thought about before: I wish music apps like Spotify would use something vaguely like spaced repetition for Shuffle mode. In the sense of finding some good algorithm to predict, based on past listening behavior, which song in a playlist the user is most likely to curr... (read more)