Unusual uses of spaced repetition

[Gwern Branwen]

Vaniver http://lesswrong.com/lw/e26/who_wants_to_start_an_important_startup/78ig
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> I used SRS to remember my student's names. They thought I had superpowers.
>
> (I didn't have the TA facebook until after the first session, and so I introduced myself and shook the hand of every student, and then got the facebook and memorized the names with SRS before the second session. It might be similarly impressive to know their names before the first session without them telling you, but that runs the risk of seeming creepy.)

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[Gnome]

haha, that was a fun story

[George Wade]

One more example may be as therapy for the effects of a stroke — but: do remind me in a year to tell you if it is working out; if I have found others on e-patient, or elsewhere, who find it compelling enough to keep up... You do have superpowers and are wise enough to keep them secret.

George

On 20 Aug 2012, at 17:19, Gwern Branwen wrote:

> Vaniver http://lesswrong.com/lw/e26/who_wants_to_start_an_important_startup/78ig
> :
>

>> I used SRS to remember my student's names. They thought I had superpowers......

>> — the risk of seeming creepy.)
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> gwern
> http://www.gwern.net

[Gwern Branwen]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 7:40 PM, George Wade <wadege...@gmail.com> wrote:
> One more example may be as therapy for the effects of a stroke — but: do remind me in a year to tell you if it is working out; if I have found others on e-patient, or elsewhere, who find it compelling enough to keep up...

I don't entirely know what spaced repetition as therapy for the
effects of a stroke would be. I do know that spaced repetition seems
to work in eg. Alzheimer's or multiple scelerosis patients (
http://www.gwern.net/Spaced%20repetition#distributed )

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