Spaced practice and retrieval practice, both of which are used in SRS, are two learning techniques for which there is ample evidence that they actually work [0].
Of course, You still need to decide what is worth remembering.
Using Anki to remember what you read
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do do the same thing this guy and do all the things you mentioned. I create cards on sundays only and i do anki every morning before i start working. It can be accomplished easily, sans children.
but that list is >8hrs of back to back chores (according to his estimates) for a non-work day without any of the ones your parent post mentions. I don't think that's realistic.
I imagine that the subject of the article is one of those genetic mutants who only requires 4-6 hours of sleep a day. They do exist, but are definitely statistical outliers.
Not needing 9 hours of sleep is the only real way to add time to your day.
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#103Just tried to use it. What's with the Anki UX? You can't just install the mobile app and start downloading shared decks to use.
I believe the mobile app is limited to just studying. Creating new cards and downloading shared decks must be done using either the desktop app or the web app.
You can definitely create new cards in the official mobile app (for iOS).
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
but that list is >8hrs of back to back chores (according to his estimates) for a non-work day without any of the ones your parent post mentions. I don't think that's realistic.
I imagine that the subject of the article is one of those genetic mutants who only requires 4-6 hours of sleep a day. They do exist, but are definitely statistical outliers. Not needing 9 hours of sleep is the only real way to add time to your day.
Not only that, I also require "offline" time to relax otherwise I become very weird emotionally and I start dreading everything.
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#105Is it a sane thing to do (cram every bit of knowledge in your head)? I have a feeling that it's futile and could even be a bad thing for mental health and sanity.
Hey kids in school memorize baseball scores, league position, all the characters in Star Wars. It's very normal for people to remember/memorize things. A trick to do it more efficiently isn't going to drive anybody crazy.
They don't do it in a mechanical way attempting to maximize recall.
It's another thing to try to stuff absolutely every bit of information you've encountered in your head with lots of effort.
From reading HN I get a feeling (could be wrong feeling) that western society is always obsessed with something (or perhaps every society, but it's easier to notice this from the outside).
If it's money - you need to grab all the money you can get. If it's time - you are obliged to do something productive every second of your waking hours. And you must also find a way to sleep much less than 7-8 hours in order to maximize "productive" time.
Now you must also remember every bit of information you've seen.
It feels creepy and definitely doesn't feels sane thing to do.
What if I earned all the money in the world? What does it change?
What if I do something "productive" every second of my life? I would probably hate such life.
What's the point of trying to remember every detail from the book about telegraph history and ancient philosophy?..
This obsession feels really weird to me.
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#106I just...can’t relate to living this way. Maybe you have to be a special type of person, but this whole lifestyle just seems exhausting and over-managed.
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
For programming, memorisation doesn't matter that much. Not knowing the argument order for a function isn't a big deal. You use an IDE or you get a good offline docs viewer (Dash, DevDocs etc.) or you learn to Google efficiently. Language learning is an obvious use case. Also: law and medicine. Having knowledge mentally 'to hand' is pretty important if you've got a patient under general anaesthetic, or a judge asking…
> Language learning is an obvious use case Memorizing word pairs can certainly be done with spaced repetition, but it’s unclear how much that translates to actual language ability. Second-language acquisition appears to be primarily dependent on reading (or listening to) the target language for content , and most words are learned via seeing them in context instead of being looked up in a dictionary. I have no experi…
That depends entirely on how you implement spaced repetition.
Word pair is the easiest way to do it in anki, but it's not the only way to implement it.
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
Anki has two benefits: memorization and understanding. Memorization is what comes from going over the cards, which is what you allude to. Understanding comes from the process of creating the cards, where you think hard about the atoms of information in the text, and their interrelationships, and cast them into simple questions. Then memorization gives you a much deeper understanding than if you hadn't ankied the text…
I concur, what you describe is a very effective use of spaced repetition. It is different from what ‘ProstetnicJeltz described, where cards should take less than a minute to write — that describes memorization without first putting in the effort to understand.
Writing the information should take less than a minute once you formulated what you want to write. Learning takes more time.
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#109I used a lot of space repetition previously, but I've found a lot of issues with it
- Most of what I learned is not useful knowledge in anki. I made many variations of different decks, some for programming and some for other concepts
- Space repetition - the concept itself is built in many different places. For instance, google will remind me of photos that I took last year on my phone. I can check up instagram and facebook to see things my friends are doing and be reminded of things we've done. I can message people and be reminded of things too, or throw parties and likewise be hit with space-repetition if done frequently enough.
don't get me wrong though, space repetition is useful especially for learning a topic that requires a lot of vocabulary. The best way to learn something is just to be fully immersed into it, if you practice it daily you basically are applying the space-repetition algorithm in practice.
If you want to learn a new language, move to the country that speaks said language.
There's a lot of wasted time and effort in making cards and determining what is "Fringe value" - cards that expire and offer no values long term
If you want to remember things about people you care about, just message them pictures of things you;ve done together. No need to make a rolodex CRM like some of my friends do, its a waste of effort and time imo.
What anki really shines though again is language learning, or learning something with a lot of barrier-to-entry vocab. This is especically true for medical industry based applications
I practice what I use everyday and immerse myself in many programming communities and I've found that I've learned and retained information far more effectively when it's shared b/w many different perspectices and contextes
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#110Zettelkasten has been making the rounds here this year. His process appears similar to the org-mode process using Jethro Kuan's org-roam. I've started using it and while it can be a bit tricky to set up and there's a couple mildly annoying bugs (with workarounds), for a solo project it filled the niche for me perfectly. I use it for all note taking and reading now and it is very satisfying.