Mnemonic medium

The mnemonic medium can help readers apply what they’ve learned through simple application prompts

Effects of the mnemonic medium on reader memory

The mnemonic medium can be adapted to author an experience which unfolds over time

QCVC

Mental states of deep software development and deep research thinking are mutually exclusive

Spaced repetition memory prompts should be written to discourage shallow “pattern matching”

The mnemonic medium may push readers to read more slowly and attentively

Quantum Country users rarely forget after demonstrating five-day retention

The mnemonic medium may help scaffold prompt-writing through author-provided prompts

SRS retry mechanism

Spaced repetition memory systems don’t rapidly demonstrate their benefits

The initial mnemonic medium is implicitly authoritarian in premise

Web books

Quantum Country users seem to forget most prompts quite slowly

Retry intervention produces substantial increases in early accuracy on Quantum Country

Revuu

The mnemonic medium is particularly valuable for platform knowledge

Demonstrated retention reliably bounds future recall attempts on Quantum Country

Turning any web page into the mnemonic medium

Forgotten spaced repetition prompts should probably be reviewed the next day

How might the mnemonic medium adapt to readers’ differing backgrounds and goals?

Collaborations between tool-makers and tool-users depend on building effective “armories” of tool ideas

Will Zeng

Forgotten spaced repetition prompts should probably have smaller future spacing intervals

In what senses is the mnemonic medium more than an annotation layer on ordinary prose?

The mnemonic medium works well for linear primers in established fields

How rapidly do people forget practical knowledge?

Conceptual information may have much slower optimal spaced repetition schedules

The mnemonic medium’s design relies on light-weight prompts

Quantum Country’s high recall accuracy rates may mask forgetting because of cuing

To what extent do people “lie” when self-grading spaced repetition prompts?

In-essay Quantum Country reader performance partially predicts first review performance

Mnemonic medium prompts can extend the main text’s discussion, not just repeat it

New media forms benefit somewhat simply from being novel

Execute Program’s progress mechanics emphasize completing new lessons over increasing recall duration

How does the mnemonic medium’s efficacy vary across platform-knowledge-style topics?

I can’t easily iterate on the design of the mnemonic medium by testing it on myself

Mnemonic medium onboarding depends on a critical mass of content

Quantum Country lacks a coherent spatial representation of the mnemonic medium’s cards as objects

Quantum Country’s readers are mostly driven by curiosity, rather than a serious context of use

Quantum Country readers forget about as many times before their first successful repetition as they do in the following half year

2019 Quantum Country efficacy experiment

§Taking knowledge work seriously (Stripe convergence talk, 2019-12-12)

2021-03-19 Conversation with Joe Edelman

Log: Preparing for FOO Camp talk 2020

# Quantum Country

Our first project in the [[zKPv6qkSErdRGqyryvgS2wS:::Mnemonic medium]], a primer on quantum computing and quantum mechanics.

<https://quantum.country>

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