diff --git a/content/colophon.md b/content/colophon.md index a721fed..8ce2f32 100644 --- a/content/colophon.md +++ b/content/colophon.md @@ -136,6 +136,8 @@ Every essay and post on this site carries an **epistemic footer** — a structur - **Evidence** — how well-evidenced the claims are, on the same 1–5 scale. An essay with high importance and low evidence is a speculative position and should be read accordingly. +- **Overall score** — a single 0–100 integer derived automatically from the three quantitative fields above: confidence weighted at 50%, evidence at 30%, importance at 20%. It appears adjacent to the Epistemic link in the top metadata row and is not entered manually. + - **Scope**, **Novelty**, **Practicality** — optional qualitative fields in the expanded footer. *Scope* ranges from *personal* to *civilizational*; *novelty* from *conventional* to *innovative*; *practicality* from *abstract* to *exceptional*. These are not ratings — they are orientations. - **Stability** — auto-computed at every build from `git log --follow`. The heuristic: very new or barely-touched documents are *volatile*; actively-revised documents are *revising*; older documents with more commits settle into *fairly stable*, *stable*, or *established*. This requires no manual maintenance — the build reads the repository history and makes the inference. diff --git a/content/essays/empirical-musings-spaced-repetition.md b/content/essays/empirical-musings-spaced-repetition.md index df637e4..3d94719 100644 --- a/content/essays/empirical-musings-spaced-repetition.md +++ b/content/essays/empirical-musings-spaced-repetition.md @@ -1,11 +1,22 @@ --- -title: "The Philosophical Legacy of Dostoevsky's Implicit Rejection of Logic and Science in Part I of Notes from Underground" -date: 2025-10-24 +title: "Empirical Musings on Spaced Repetition for Learning Beyond Memorization" +date: 2026-03-26 abstract: > - *Notes from Underground* is widely admired as a cornerstone of literature, culture, and philosophy. This paper develops the argument that the primary philosophical undercurrent is a rejection of logic and science as end-alls in modern life, traced through comparison with the more explicitly articulated works of Dostoevsky's contemporaries and successors: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Shestov, Ellul, Sartre, Camus, Husserl, and Arendt. + A compendium of years of informal, empirical experiments aimed at extending the efficacy of Anki beyond rote memorization to more intricate levels of learning. tags: - nonfiction - - nonfiction/philosophy + - research + - research/informal + - miscellany authors: - "Levi Neuwirth | /me.html" +status: "Draft" +confidence: 65 +importance: 3 +evidence: 2 +scope: broad +novelty: idiosyncratic +practicality: high +confidence history: + - 65 ---