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Is Supermemo only available as a SaaS?
No it's primarily an awful Delphi for Windows desktop application that is extremely fragile. But once you know how to "hold it correctly" it will be your companion for life. I run it in a virtual machine with all its legacy dependencies like IE. Forget about running it on Wine, it barely works on any version of Windows (lol)
Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall
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Re: Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall
#62It's cute math, but doesn't take into account the inexplicable differences between the retention of seemingly similar facts. Some items stick very well, whereas others suffer from lapses. In my Ankid ecks, I have items that have 10+ year intervals. And some, which were introduced at around the same time as those, which have intervals in months, beaten down by lapses. Anyone who thinks that some simple math leads to i…
I don't recommend allowing Anki items to have an interval of over one year because the crude SM-2 algorithm does not capture the per-item effect of exponential decay in memory. Multiplying interval lengths by per-item ease factors is suboptimal and not the same. Unlike, for instance, ACT-R, which unfortunately has no good publicly available user interface. A good implementation of a neural memory fact model will trac…
Re: Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall
#63I was anti-memorization until I went back to graduate school for mathematics. I had forgotten (or never learned) a lot of things needed to pass qualifying exams. At some point I ran across the spaced repetition idea (maybe from the Wired SuperMemo article [0]) and I gave it a try. I ended up using it to memorize large portions of baby Rudin and Munkres' Topology, as well as some algebra and a bunch of qualifying exam…
seems like countries should be investing money in this, potentially trillions in unlocked economic potential by improving and speeding up education. I think I read something like 20-30% of medical school students use SRS, yet only a fraction of the general population uses it. Insane to me that we have a tool like this and almost nothing is being done to improve adoption.
Re: Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall
#64My flow right now for learning things is.
1. Find sources copy and paste large swathes of revelevant text and images.
2. Re-read the copy and pasted text and create a detailed summary of it in my own words.
3. Come back a few hours or day later and summarize the summary.
4. Use this as the basis for cards to load into Anki.
It isn't about building a massive repository of facts, and you can do plenty with just steps 1-3 without ever using Spaced Repetition, but the reason I fell in love with spaced repetition and have jumped on it so heavily is that I've done steps 1-3 with a lot of information and subjects, and over time have forgotten all but the most basic things about them. This makes me feel as if part of my time or life was wasted, because if I have to revist something again latter like Sorting Algorithms it feels like starting over. Whereas things I have started to use spaced repetition with, I retain the fundamentals the "outline" of the subject for much longer, and if I have to revisit it I feel much more familiar because to paraphrase Piotr Wozniak. The things we remember well are things that are well located/connected within our knowledge tree.
For those IT people out there as well the other thing spaced repetition and especially Anki is super useful for is learning how to use your tools more effectively because it helps you to remember those features and tricks that you don't use often but super speed things up. For example I used grep for a long time, I often found myself having to hit up the man page, or the DDG if I needed to do something unusual, or more often I'd end up trying to cobble something together with the tools I had. I reviewed a "most useful flags" in grep page a few months back and decided to Ankify it. I am now an order of magnitude more proficient with grep because I can quickly recall the flag or option I need to provide to do something wonky with it when I need to, simply because I remember a relatively obscure feature, that I don't use often and would've forgotten otherwise.
Finally in conclusion
The 4 states that made up the Austro-Hungarian Empire were Boznia-Herzgovania, Croatia-Slavonia, The Kingdom of Hungry and Cieslenthia. Because sometimes memorizing one or two random facts just makes life more interesting.
Re: Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall
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Don't you think you actually did well in your exams because you really understood it and not because you blindly memorized it ?
That is false dichotomy that is running around. To really understand something first you blindly memorize - but that is not enough, once you do examples and exercises using what you blindly memorized you get to understand things quicker, a lot quicker. Not memorizing stuff and figuring things as you go is mostly recipe for disappointment. Like in chess - people think that chess players are somehow super intelligent -…
The suggestion in the book was that really Grandmasters have spent so much time practicing, that they have memorized the game and the board to a certain extant that allows them to more easily handle the board and all the pieces on it cognitively.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
No it's primarily an awful Delphi for Windows desktop application that is extremely fragile. But once you know how to "hold it correctly" it will be your companion for life. I run it in a virtual machine with all its legacy dependencies like IE. Forget about running it on Wine, it barely works on any version of Windows (lol)
What's https://www.supermemo.com/ then? I just signed up to give it a go (requires CC #, but free for a month). Still haven't found good spaced repetition vocab learning site that works well for me.
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What's https://www.supermemo.com/ then? I just signed up to give it a go (requires CC #, but free for a month). Still haven't found good spaced repetition vocab learning site that works well for me.
https://super-memo.com/ is the software that's being talked about.
Re: Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall
#68I use it whenever I have a few minutes of downtime, no fancy state persistence between sessions.
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If actually using it has this huge friction, how do you manage to use it every day? I always have a hard time creating habits out things that are hard to "start" doing every time.
I don't. I developed my own spaced repetition software from first principles based on the latest research :D
Re: Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
If actually using it has this huge friction, how do you manage to use it every day? I always have a hard time creating habits out things that are hard to "start" doing every time.
I don't. I developed my own spaced repetition software from first principles based on the latest research :D