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Gizmo | Software Engineers | London | Hybrid | https://gizmo.ai Gizmo is a startup on a mission to make learning so easy and fun that anyone can learn anything. We're aiming to hel…

My understanding of Plato's cave is that it is about the disparity between the ideas in our head and reality. For example, you know what a triangle is, but there is no such thing a…

Firstly, in terms of the distinction between learning and knowing -- the thing that matters most is the strength of the encoding in the brain. If you just memorise something with 0…

The problem is that if you don't commit information to long-term memory you can't use it reason effectively in other contexts, and you have to add it back to your short-term memory…

yes, we need understanding - the best way to get things into memory is to make connections between neurons through understanding. And this keeps it in memory for longer than if you…

Hi HN, I'm Robin, co-founder of Save All. Save All is a spaced repetition app that uses machine learning to help people remember everything. After telling us what you want to remem…

If you wanted to do Cloze questions, you can use saveall.ai (a tool that I built) to generate them automatically from fragments of texts. We also plan to work on automatically gene…

What's weird about the above comment is that this course specifically talks about spaced repetition and active recall as the only ways to learn effectively. I took this course and …