Mnemonic medium

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

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

Effects of the mnemonic medium on reader memory

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

QCVC

Quantum Country users rarely forget after demonstrating five-day retention

The initial mnemonic medium is implicitly authoritarian in premise

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

Quantum Country users seem to forget most prompts quite slowly

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

SRS retry mechanism

Spaced repetition memory systems don’t rapidly demonstrate their benefits

Retry intervention produces substantial increases in early accuracy on Quantum Country

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

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

Web books

The mnemonic medium is particularly valuable for platform knowledge

Will Zeng

Revuu

Turning any web page into the mnemonic medium

Demonstrated retention reliably bounds future recall attempts on Quantum Country

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

The mnemonic medium works well for linear primers in established fields

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

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

2021 plan

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

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

How rapidly do people forget practical knowledge?

Forgotten spaced repetition prompts should probably be reviewed the next day

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

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

Conceptual information may have much slower optimal spaced repetition schedules

Forgotten spaced repetition prompts should probably have smaller future spacing intervals

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

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

2022 plan

Mnemonic medium onboarding depends on a critical mass of content

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

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

2021-07-13

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

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

New media forms benefit somewhat simply from being novel

2021-03-19 Conversation with Joe Edelman

Orbit - Project planning - 2022

2019 Quantum Country efficacy experiment

2022-03-06 – 2022-03-12

2022 Q1

2021 Q2

2021-11-14 – 2021-11-20

2021-11-21 – 2021-11-27

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2021-04 April

2021 Q4

2022-01-16 – 2022-01-22

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2022-01 January

2022-02 February

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2022-02-06 – 2022-02-12

2022-02-13 – 2022-02-19

2022-02-20 – 2022-02-26

2021-08-16

Log: Preparing for FOO Camp talk 2020

# Quantum Country

Our first project in the [[z4rRX3qwSSJRsEkdXKwH2shamgHNeRthrMLiF:::Mnemonic medium]], a primer on quantum computing and quantum mechanics.

<https://quantum.country>

*   [[zt1TyUANyt84UkQVBJjWEGZ3JUd2HP92r65:::Effects of the mnemonic medium on reader memory]]
*   [[z8BQLYf1WtN4HsBLtfejA7BDJerGCork6w9xG:::Quantum Country data analyses]]
*   [[z6G4eJSfNQQUhns6c7AJwn5v4aqkpP3ZzGGk5:::Quantum Country user interviews]]






Quantum Country