Math, Productivity, Happiness and Decision-making

Math, Productivity, Happiness and Decision-making

Mar 14, 2012, 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM | 740 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Kaushik Krishnan, UC Berkeley (Economics) (Speaker)
Today we'll talk about using spaced repetition to learn everything from language to math to new social behaviors, and try to figure out when it's most and least useful. Spaced repetition learning (SRL) is a technique for committing a lot of things to active memory with minimal total time expenditure. If you need to learn $n$ items, for each item $x_i$, SRL software tries to determine the minimum...