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Spaced Repetition
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#82I 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…
I've used Pimsleur at length in the past and found it the most suitable way for me to study language. The drawbacks are the limited programs, they develop at a glacial pace, if at all anymore, and each level is very expensive. But the method is wonderful. I had friends offering to help them develop their particular language into a full course 20 years ago and they said "thanks but no thanks" and there is still nothing but a 10 lesson intro program in that language...and those intro courses are a useless waste of money except to learn how to say "I speak a little " with perfect intonation. For a long time I wished someone would unseat them but it never happened. Even related theory based sites which complimented Pimsleur like Duolingo and Memrise just got worse and worse with time.
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#83I 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…
I've used Pimsleur at length in the past and found it the most suitable way for me to study language. The drawbacks are the limited programs, they develop at a glacial pace, if at all anymore, and each level is very expensive. But the method is wonderful. I had friends offering to help them develop their particular language into a full course 20 years ago and they said "thanks but no thanks" and there is still nothin…
I recommend downloading the audio from this site and creating both text and audio Anki cards for each phrase. It’s a bit like the Pimsleur process except you’ll learn 2,000+ phrases.
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#84Spaced repetition is essential to learning Chinese characters because the language doesn't contain an alphabet. Glad to see it getting some love.
I recently created an SRS app specific to learning Chinese vocabulary. You can check it out at:
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#85Recommend 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.
I've tried using anki for non-vocabulary stuff.
My impression is that to recall some fact, what I put in the card might not be what I care about recalling. e.g. for Set, wikipedia has "a set is an abstract data type that can store unique values, without any particular order". Whereas what I might care about is "a Set has items, and it's quick to check if the item is in the set". -- If I don't know what a Set is and haven't used it, it's a bit tough to come up with a description I'm going to care about.
While vocab flashcards are straightforward, non-vocab flashcards need more maintenance.
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
> [Warning: attempt at taking joke seriously] As an aside, I love doing this sort of thing. In conversation, someone makes a joke about X doing something impossible, and then all of us who analyze everything to death start playing the scenario in our head to understand ramifications or limitations in the fictional and often impossible scenario. Drives my wife nuts, but I enjoy it so much :)
I also enjoy this and have found that a good heuristic for whether or not someone else will is essentially "how much do you enjoy Seinfeld?"
Your theory holds true with my wife and I. I love Seinfeld, she hates it :D
I should note that I actually don't find what I do comedic, nor am I doing it for comedic effect - I'm analyzing the scenario in a similar way that I find myself programming. It seems to feel.. similar to me. Eg, if we're discussing superman I might start thinking about all the normal scenarios Superman must find himself in. How he deals with those normal scenarios with abnormal abilities, and such.
Regardless, she still hates obsessing about that in the way I love haha. Similar to your statement, Seinfeld seems to take the same approach to analyzing things but for the target of comedy.
Interesting all around. Well, except to my wife. :)
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#87I built splearn.io to learn faster myself through spaced repetition learning. Anyone can log in and use it 100% free though. It has offline sync and text to speech for spelling. It only uses active recall (actually tests you) for maximum efficiency.
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#88I built splearn.io to learn faster myself through spaced repetition learning. Anyone can log in and use it 100% free though. It has offline sync and text to speech for spelling. It only uses active recall (actually tests you) for maximum efficiency.
It might be helpful to put in some sample questions so people can try it out without having to enter their own data.
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#89I 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…
There isn't much value in memorizing vast amounts of facts like that anymore (you already mentioned two key areas where that's still needed: language and medicine). Nowadays it's better to remember where to find facts and learn quickly than to simply remember facts upfront. It's fine for you to have a personal goal of using spaced repetition to learn dozens of languages, historical events, etc, but it's really not a…
Facts are data. Connected facts are knowledge. Knowledge breeds wisdom. You won't put a roof on house if you don't start with a foundation.
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#90I built splearn.io to learn faster myself through spaced repetition learning. Anyone can log in and use it 100% free though. It has offline sync and text to speech for spelling. It only uses active recall (actually tests you) for maximum efficiency.
It might be helpful to put in some sample questions so people can try it out without having to enter their own data.
Thanks tashi. Great point!