the lions of memory hacking - kanjilicious
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A quick overview of the 5 most important thinkers behind Kanjilicious, a mobile game for learning Japanese. Kanjilicious is currently live on Kickstarter: http://bit.ly/kanjikickTRANSCRIPT
The Five Lions of Memory Hacking
Ebbinghaus&Leitner& Pimsleur& Wozniak& Fogg.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
!1850-1905
The Original Memory Hacker.
The Inventor of the Forgetting Curve
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Which gave rise to Spaced Repetition.
Sebastian Leitner !
1919-1989
Father of the Modern Flash Card.
Developed the Leitner System
Set the pattern to optimize Practice Learning
Paul Pimsleur !
1927-1976
Memory’s Pace Setter.
Developed the Pimsleur language learning system.
Scheduled reviews on an Optimal Timeline
5 days, 25 days,
4 months, 2 years.
5 seconds, 25 seconds, 2 minutes,
10 minutes, 1 hour,
5 hours, 1 day.
Piotr Wozniak
Memory’s Programmer.
Developed the SuperMemo application.
Formalized Algorithms for Machine-aided
memorization.
dOF=dOFmax*a/(thalf+a) dOFmax=(OF-1)*(OI+thalf-1)/(OI-1)
B.J. Fogg
The Behaviorist.
Established the Trigger of
Behavior.
Set the pattern to motivate continued
good habits.