Spaced Repetition

Post by asdkhadsj » Thu, Jul 25, 2019, 7:18 PM UTC

the_watcher wrote: post #96

asdkhadsj wrote: post #86

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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…

I enjoy analyzing in the same way, it's just that Seinfeld takes the same tendency and turns them into jokes, which seem to be much funnier to people who enjoy breaking down trivial things. My version of your Superman example is thinking about mutants from the X-Men universe with trivial mutations: there must be countless useless X-gene mutations, right? What might those be? Invisible skin, but not organs?

Post by DeusExMachina » Thu, Jul 25, 2019, 8:49 PM UTC

laGrenouille wrote: post #92

DeusExMachina wrote: post #25

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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 have been using Anki for the past six months for French, more-or-less following the Fluent Forever method. I found that the method worked really well for the basic vocabulary (pictures for easily identifiable objects), cloze deletion for basic grammar and other common words. However, I have recently noticed two related problems as my deck and knowledge of the language grows is size (I have about 5000 unique cards a…

Post by rockdiesel » Thu, Jul 25, 2019, 9:12 PM UTC

misiti3780 wrote: post #99

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…

I have been using spaced repetition for roughly 3 years and have seen some amazing personal growth. I was born in the US, and have now learned 2 languages (Italian B2/C1, French B1/B2, and I just started Spanish but it is so similar to italian its gonna be pretty easy to pick up ). I remember almost every book I have read in the past three years by using kindle highlights and turning them into flash- cards. I use it…

Post by sn9 » Thu, Jul 25, 2019, 11:05 PM UTC

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Sorry but I disagree completely. The ability to quickly find information online doesn’t negate the fact that intellectual progress and creativity often come from making connections between disparate fields. The only way to make these deeper connections is to truly know and digest the information, not simply to google it. It is probably a consequence of the computer age that we think of information as a singular piece…

Connecting information is orthogonal to remembering it. Same with digesting information: you don't need to use something like spaced-repetition to commit knowledge to long term memory in order to digest it, you just need to spend some time understanding the info. In fact, I'd argue that spaced-repetition runs somewhat counter to deeply understanding information. It's easy to repetitively memorize and recall info with…

Post by AlchemistCamp » Fri, Jul 26, 2019, 4:10 AM UTC

misiti3780 wrote: post #99

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…

I have been using spaced repetition for roughly 3 years and have seen some amazing personal growth. I was born in the US, and have now learned 2 languages (Italian B2/C1, French B1/B2, and I just started Spanish but it is so similar to italian its gonna be pretty easy to pick up ). I remember almost every book I have read in the past three years by using kindle highlights and turning them into flash- cards. I use it…