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If that was true it would be the only example of that in skill acquisition ever found. Distributed practice beats massed practice for the same time expenditure.

Sports https://sportscienceinsider.com/massed-vs-distributed-practi...

Study https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_practice



If you program for 30 minutes you spend first 15 minutes filling your short-term memory with all the relevant details to do 15 minutes of work and throw it away.


I think it is understood that there's a lower total bound for it to be useful, like it's pointless comparing ten seconds of daily fitness with 70 seconds of one time weekly fitness




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