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I love Andy Matuschak! His podcast with Dwarkesh was so enlightening and his blog is great as well. He's one of those people whose work I go back and read every couple of months an…

No, to be honest I haven't had so much practice with those kinds of cards; I've mostly used it for vocabulary and geography. How does it change things?

Ah sorry about that, I made this video a while ago but I forgot to link it on the home page. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntcWvoZYLec&t=10s&ab_channel... Thanks for pointing it …

I agree with this, but at the same time I think LLMs will make anyone who wants to learn much smarter.

Wow the twenty rules article should be required reading for anyone downloading Anki.

In general I agree with this, and there is definitely something a bit insidious about optimizing the entire process so that you are on a perfectly calibrated i+1 treadmill. But, fo…

Me too!

Yeah I was definitely doing too many for it to be fun. I think that when you have a really high level, Anki is actually even better than when you are at a lower level, because you …

I agree that they could be complementary, but I think there's a not-yet-made tool that goes even beyond this, where you are interacting with an LLM that has an Anki-like backend of…

I had the exact same experience. The more work I did up front on a card, the better I was able to remember. When I was learning the kanji cards, I would take the time to draw them …

So I definitely agree that this is 100% the best way to use Anki, that's why I wrote the line about "Writing cards that trigger memories of experiences I had in the real world alwa…

Thanks for the advice! I'll try modifying the prompt a bit and see if I can pull out more engaging questions.

Simplify native-level content—news articles, blogs, documentation—to match your current proficiency. The idea was inspired by Stephen Krashen's i+1 hypothesis and Andy Mutuschak's …

Inspired by Krashen's i+1 hypothesis and yomitan (a Japanese popup dictionary) my friend an I made a chrome extension that provides you with a custom definition of any word or phra…

When I saw a great Show HN post yesterday about a language learning with real-world content, I started to sweat a bit; the headline matched what I had been working on with a friend…