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Re: Sans Forgetica, a font designed to help you remember your study notes

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Post by peterwwillis »

gowld wrote: post #113
keehun wrote: post #16

Wow, they have their own TLD! https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/rmit.html Interesting that the university's website is not on that TLD but rather https://rmit.edu.au

The unusual TLD makes it more memorable. Anyone can apply for their own gTLD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain Interestingly, one of the major promoters of gTLDs is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne_IT a neighbor of RMIT

"The initial price to apply for a new gTLD was $185,000"

Using that student tuition fee wisely. (ICANN's website confirms this is still the initial cost + deposit, and more fees can pile on)

Re: Sans Forgetica, a font designed to help you remember your study notes

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Post by jaclaz »

Camillo wrote: post #142
HarryHirsch wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good question. Is oleum used for liquid fat, no matter the source, or is it confined to plant-based oils? pinguis has definite animalistic qualities. You'd think it was oleum nucis indicæ [1], not pinguis nucis indicæ , except when used in a metaphorical manner. Paging Reginald Foster, Father Reginald please! [1] nux indica is the coconut

Pinguis isn't even a noun, is it? I think it's an adjective.

Pinguis can be a name alright besides an adjective, but it is more "fat":

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=pinguis&la=la&ca...

I provided the link to google books to the Liber fundamentorum pharmacologia only to show that oleum serpentis was actually an ancient remedy, of course the Latin of a book translated from medieval Persian might be not exactly Cicero, still it should be much better than any translation I can do.

But most probably oleum was a synonym of olive or however vegetable oil in ancient Rome, and it is entirely possible that the actual Persian medicine was the extract of some plant and only called serpentis.

On the other hand, besides the name, we don't actually know if snake oil is actually made of snake oil or snake fat or something else.

Re: Sans Forgetica, a font designed to help you remember your study notes

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Post by real-hacker »

mujoco wrote: post #123
quadrangle wrote: post #49

My favorite "desirable difficulty" from cog psych is to practice recall . I recall a study with 3 groups of students: 1. read essay 4 times 2. read and take notes, study notes 3. read once, then have to write out (a few times) what can be recalled on a blank piece of paper The groups were from most to least confident in their learning but the actual success on a test for concepts (which requires recall) was opposite.…

Your method (3) is a great way to study, and it's very similar to the "Feynman Technique": https://mattyford.com/blog/2014/1/23/the-feynman-technique-m... The Feynman Technique is basically alternating between writing a description of a concept on paper from memory, and looking up whatever you couldn't remember.

I think I learned about it in "Learning how to learn" video course. One principle: don't reread, recall.

Re: Sans Forgetica, a font designed to help you remember your study notes

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Post by Rjevski »

Maybe we should treat the root cause and not the symptom? If people don't remember stuff because they don't need it then maybe the tests should not depend on remembering useless stuff?

At my job for some reason I never need to force myself to remember stuff; it comes naturally as I look up the same thing over and over again because I use it frequently.

Re: Sans Forgetica, a font designed to help you remember your study notes

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Post by metalliqaz »

dang wrote: post #147
metalliqaz wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do any of those 50 experiments involve being naked? Asking for a friend.

Please don't do this here.

Just curious, why else would it be specifically for newlyweds? What's the big deal?

Re: Sans Forgetica, a font designed to help you remember your study notes

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Post by jxy »

blechinger wrote: post #54
r00fus wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> But does the effectiveness of this hold up over time or will your brain get accustomed to the font after a while I would posit that this might be true if everything was in sans forgetica, but since only your notes should be in that font, then it will likely retain it's utility over time. Is the goal that you type these notes in SF and hope the font trains you to remember? There was a scene in the video where someon…

I write notes to re-explain the material in my own words and test my understanding. Then, once I'm sure I've got it right, I read the notes and use them as reference. Writing in a normal font and then switching to Sans Forgetica to read/study the notes would be my use-case.

One trick I have learned when I started writing articles on a computer, and I am still using it, is that always change to an unfamiliar font face when proofreading.

I will try to use this font for proofreading and see how it compares to my current favorite, Luminari.

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