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Spaced Repetition
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#32A very fun and interactive introduction to spaced repetition by the amazing Nicky Case: https://ncase.me/remember/
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#33I’ve used Anki pretty consistently throughout my university studies for just about every course. I plan to continue using it to keep a high level overview of some of the important maths concepts I want to stay fresh on.
I’ve been enjoying Mochi[0] as an alternative recently. It has a much nicer UI and the core features I use are all there. I find it much faster to create my cards in Markdown and with a keyboard driven workflow than what I had with Anki.
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#34I often feel like learning things with Anki puts memories into the wrong part of the brain. It happens way too often that I can perfectly recall something from Anki (on a PC or phone), but have a lot of trouble recalling it 'in action'.
It might be becasue you are just training recognition and not production. I use Anki to study Russian, with great results, following Gabriel Werner's Fluent Forever. In the book, he teaches how to learn the words and the grammar of a language using Anki. One of the fundamental ideas is to both create recognition and production cards. The recognition cards are the ones with a word in your target language, of which you…
I'm also studying Russian. Are you using the Fluent Forever app along with the book? How are you storing your anki cards (anki app or something else).
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#35I often feel like learning things with Anki puts memories into the wrong part of the brain. It happens way too often that I can perfectly recall something from Anki (on a PC or phone), but have a lot of trouble recalling it 'in action'.
I also experience this phenomenon. In learning a language, I like to think of Anki as the primer stage in learning a word. I have to encounter and recognize that word in the wild for the memory to be fully solidified. I'll often go back to my Anki card and add a note of where I encountered it IRL, and that usually makes that card stick for good.
Yeah, me too. I try to save a new word every day that I heard in the wild. Trying to memorize random words that I didn't pick up from direct use is nearly impossible (for me, at least).
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#36Seems like spaced repetition works great for language learning and remembering new terms. I wonder how it could help to get better as a programmer. Any tips?
I once made anki flashcards while reading a book on linux. I think I was able to memorize a lot of useful CLI utilities because of that. It also helped me stay motivated to get through a very dry book.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Could be difficult to put in lot of latex or even diagrams. We need something which can auto-generate the notes for us.
I'm actually working on a knowledge base / memory retention application. I'm not yet sure what I'll do for the "best UX", as I want to avoid UI work (not my area) , so I expect I'll export to something like Mochi[1] or Anki. Can you describe your format and processing a bit more? I'd like to have some understanding for potential future use cases. Eg, what are the sources (format/etc), and how would you envision them…
Not familiar with Mochi, but it looks uncannily like https://www.notion.so/product
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#38Check out gwern's fantastic article about this: https://www.gwern.net/Spaced-repetition
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#39I often feel like learning things with Anki puts memories into the wrong part of the brain. It happens way too often that I can perfectly recall something from Anki (on a PC or phone), but have a lot of trouble recalling it 'in action'.
It might be becasue you are just training recognition and not production. I use Anki to study Russian, with great results, following Gabriel Werner's Fluent Forever. In the book, he teaches how to learn the words and the grammar of a language using Anki. One of the fundamental ideas is to both create recognition and production cards. The recognition cards are the ones with a word in your target language, of which you…
What you describe is intentional vocabulary acquisition. However I'd like to point out that such words learned via this method consist only of a small portion of the vocabularies of both native speakers and L2 learners. Majority of vocabulary comes through incidental vocabulary acquisition [0].
Such methods of learning the language would make you a practitioner of the Skill-Building Hypothesis in your SLA (Second Language Acquisition) journey. Often which methodology to follow is decided unknowingly by the L2 learners, since the sources they utilize often dictate the methodology.
I believe it'd be my duty to inform you there's also a competing theory in the SLA field that you may fancy, called the Comprehensible Input Theory.
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#40Seems like spaced repetition works great for language learning and remembering new terms. I wonder how it could help to get better as a programmer. Any tips?
Knowing what to learn is really important. The field of competitive programming probably has some good answers to your question about being a better programmer.