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Re: Spaced Repetition

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Post by gnode »

s9w wrote: post #10

I 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'.

Memory in the brain is very connection based. Spaced repetition is a good technique for strengthening connections, but not for structuring it usefully.

I find the best thing is to make as many connections as possible to and amongst the things you want to learn. For vocabulary: find patterns in the spelling of the word, draw the word, use the word in a rhyme, make a joke about the word, etc. Also, connect the words together such that you can traverse a network of them in your head.

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Post by leggomylibro »

jclay wrote: post #33

I’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 drive…

If you don't mind my asking, how easy is it to export and import data with Anki? What sorts of formats does it use?

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Post by Narretz »

s9w wrote: post #10

I 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's definitely "learned" in a very specific context. For example, I learned all US states and their capitals for a Pub Quiz. That means cards with state/capital. Then at some point there was a quiz question called "Which state capital is the last if sorted alphabetically?" And I couldn't answer it because it didn't fit my learning pattern.

Re: Spaced Repetition

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Post by winchling »

a-robinson wrote: post #4

With how often I've seen spaced repetition mentioned online recently, I'm starting to assume there's a grand conspiracy that's trying to use spaced repetition to trick me into remembering about spaced repetition.

Spaced repetition is how learning naturally works. In real life, if something is interesting, or it just keeps cropping up, you'll remember it.

The fact that spaced repetition is proving valuable now is because people in general are confused about their motives for learning stuff.

Anyhow, when it comes to learning, motivation is primary, not method.

Re: Spaced Repetition

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Post by ai_ia »

mkagenius wrote: post #5
trymas wrote: post #3

Recommend using Anki for this: https://apps.ankiweb.net/ I try to add new words/concepts/things etc. I learn into Anki. IMO, it greatly helps me with memorising various and more obscure terms, that I used to always forget.

Could be difficult to put in lot of latex or even diagrams. We need something which can auto-generate the notes for us.

Exactly what I am working on.

https://www.primerlabs.io

Primer generates Anki apkg files too.

I am way behind schedule to launch it. But I am working as hard as I can to ship soon.

Re: Spaced Repetition

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Post by nafizh »

jclay wrote: post #33

I’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 drive…

Is the repetition algorithm superior or inferior than Anki in your experience?

Re: Spaced Repetition

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Post by medell »

DeusExMachina wrote: post #25
s9w wrote: post #10

I 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 think you meant Gabriel Werner's excellent Fluent Forever.

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Post by keiferski »

I truly believe that spaced repetition is near-magic and it is a tragedy that it's not integrated into our society and educational system at a fundamental level. It makes me shudder to think of all the years spent learning things only to forget them weeks or months later.

In any case, I've recently embarked on a long-term educational plan utilizing spaced repetition. My goal is to learn dozens of languages, historical events, philosophical theories, lines of poetry, and various other information.

I'm curious if anyone else has used spaced repetition over a long period of time with a deliberately ambitious plan. Most people seem to just use it for dabbling in language-learning or medical school, and not as a way to embed massive amounts of knowledge in the brain.

Re: Spaced Repetition

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Post by ai_ia »

keiferski wrote: post #49

I truly believe that spaced repetition is near-magic and it is a tragedy that it's not integrated into our society and educational system at a fundamental level. It makes me shudder to think of all the years spent learning things only to forget them weeks or months later. In any case, I've recently embarked on a long-term educational plan utilizing spaced repetition. My goal is to learn dozens of languages, historica…

Can you post your learnings and deck online. Would love to follow your journey.
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