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More about how I’ve been memorizing quotations
As I already mentioned, I’ve been working on memorizing some of my favorite quotations. One of the main motivations for this project was to play around with spaced repetition software. I’d heard of SuperMemo a while ago, probably from the Wired article, and I was definitely intrigued, really glad that Peter Wozniak had done all…
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More about how I’ve been memorizing quotations
As I already mentioned (http://divia.posterous.com/os-x-service-for-memorizing-verbatim-text), I’ve been working on memorizing some of my favorite quotations (http://divia.tumblr.com/tagged/book%20quotes). One of the main motivations for this project was to play around with spaced repetition software (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition). I’d heard of SuperMemo a while ago, probably from the Wired artile (http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_wozniak), and I was definitely intrigued, really glad that Peter…
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OS X Service for memorizing verbatim text
First_Letters.workflow.zip Download this file Lately I’ve been somewhat into memorizing some of my favorite quotations from books. The most effective method I’ve found for doing so has been converting each word of whatever text I’m trying to memorize to just the first letter, and trying to reconstruct the passage from that. Here’s the theory behind…
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Ephemerisle platform sailing away
VID00028.AVI Watch on Posterous See, I did charge my camera! Still haven’t gotten those pictures up, but I will soon.
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The Somali flag-flying floating structure at Ephemerisle
VID00015.AVI Watch on Posterous For the record, I did then go charge my camera.