Online Memorizing with Spaced Repetition

After reading this article in the Wired Magazine, I got interested in learning with spaced repetition. Assume you want to learn a particular subject, e.g. spanish vocabulary. You might want to write your word-pairs (spanish/english) on flash cards and practice regularly. It has been shown that you both speed up learning and improve retention if [...]

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Creating a R-GUI in the wink of an eye

I think many folks have been waiting for this. R is a statistical language widely established itself in the life-sciences. However, many lab people dislike it due to its bare commandline interface. This might change with a new program called RGG:
Self written R scripts are usually not longer than 100-150 lines. In most cases, there [...]

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