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#spaced-repetitions
if, over your lifetime, you will spend more than 5 minutes looking something up or will lose more than 5 minutes as a result of not knowing something, then it’s worthwhile to memorize it with spaced repetition.
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Spaced Repetition for Efficient Learning · Gwern.net
Piotr Woź­niak was being opti­mistic or we’re bad at writ­ing flash­cards, so we’ll dou­ble it to 5 min­utes. That’s our key rule of thumb that lets us decide what to learn and what to for­get: <span>if, over your life­time, you will spend more than 5 min­utes look­ing some­thing up or will lose more than 5 min­utes as a result of not know­ing some­thing, then it’s worth­while to mem­o­rize it with spaced rep­e­ti­tion. 5 min­utes is the line that divides trivia from use­ful data.57 (There might seem to be thou­sands of flash­cards that meet the 5 minute rule. That’s fine. Spaced rep­e­ti­tion can acco


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