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I'm not sure I agree. I think what I tried to describe above couldn't be classified as "knowledge" at all. To be honest, I think we (humans) don't understand this type of understanding very well. Which is somewhat ironic :-) Edit: But thanks for the suggestion about searching for schema, will definitely take a look!
Understanding is just knowledge of how or why something works
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Yeah it needs to help you do better "encoding". This is what determines how sticky information is straight after learning it. One way that Save All (a company i run that's like anki, https://saveall.ai/ ) helps you with encoding is that it suggests alternative ways that we can quiz you on a card you just made. This helps you engage with the card a bit more as you're making it which makes it more sticky. Other than th…
I thought active and free recall were both superior to mixed encoding and interleaved practice. Is there a study linking more encoding to enhanced active recall? From what I understand, the suggestion is to add desirable difficulty (which I guess leads to better encoding, but different encodings dont nefessarily add desirable difficulty).
As someone who has been using Anki for the past 4 years to learn Japanese and now Chinese, I've recently found that the initial "learning" step is not that hard. (i.e., given 辞書, I remember "dictionary") What is hard is keeping the content I've learned, _learned_, for more than a day. So now I'm wondering, is my initial "learning" process wrong? Since definitions are fairly simple and I find them easy to remember at…
I'm recommending you some things that have completely changed my experience using Anki for language learning:
- Don't use translations. Use images instead. For learning how to say dictionary put a picture of a dictionary. It will be easier to remember. Also, you usually won't find a perfect translation for a word.
- Use cloze cards for grammar. Instead of learning the rules, understand them and put four sentences with placeholders and repeat them. This process will make this way of constructing sentences stuck in your head.
If you read a book you might not remember the previous pages, but if you start in the middle you wont understand anything.
The nodes of knowledge might be forgotten, but its ok if you have the graph. The nodes of knowledge that were available to you initially might have been biased. Then you need to unlearn, that is often harder.
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Learning styles are a myth https://www.techlearning.com/news/busting-the-myth-of-learni...
Myths are a myth I’m not speaking of trends, I’m speaking of the architecture of our minds. There are definitely differences in how various minds work, and these inconclusive pseudoscience studies making wild assertions are as junk science as the junk science they feed upon.
Yes, but we still all learn in roughly the same way. The differences aren't big enough.
As someone who has been using Anki for the past 4 years to learn Japanese and now Chinese, I've recently found that the initial "learning" step is not that hard. (i.e., given 辞書, I remember "dictionary") What is hard is keeping the content I've learned, _learned_, for more than a day. So now I'm wondering, is my initial "learning" process wrong? Since definitions are fairly simple and I find them easy to remember at…
That has to be achieved by actually practicing the language, either via listening, speaking, or writing.
Anki is there to help after that step by keeping you refreshed with the exact tones, strokes, multiple pronunciations or more ambiguous CJK characters etc. but it can't be the motor behind the process.
For spaced repetition, although it is a form of rote memorization, the key insight is that memory is formed through recall, not review. The system then (purportedly) hits you at the very moment you are about to forget the card. It's counter-intuitive but it's easier to encode things in long term memory by recalling them at that point as opposed to when it's still fresh in your mind.
This is analogous to studying in university via explaining things to yourself versus just highlighting and rereading the textbook. Every student knows the former is more effective.
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I immediately thought of the book "Thinking, fast and slow" from reading your comment. I don't know if you're familiar with it, but it talks about two "Systems" that guide our thinking. From the description of the book: "System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical." The more you do something, or think about something - the more it becomes a "System 1" operation(…
Thanks for the suggestion! I've actually read TFS, and I would even consider myself a "fan" of psychology, I definitely don't think it's mumbo jumbo. But in my opinion the book was quite shallow, only scratching on the surface of the matter. Edit: To clarify, shallow is maybe the wrong word. I think the book gets its main point across very well, and it's a good point. But the majority of the book is just further evid…
https://replicationindex.com/2020/12/30/a-meta-scientific-pe...
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> google for the names of functions Copilot is a lifesaver here. I almost never have to google function names anymore because it just fills them in for me, while usually generating exactly the code I wanted around it.
I've resisted co pilot and auto complete because when interview time comes and you have to write code outside of your toolset, you'll realize you haven't committed things so well to memory. This bit me earlier on in my career after working in visual studios for a long time. I now code almost exclusively in vim. I'm not saying you shouldn't use it, but before you go into technical parts of interviews I would recommend…
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I didn't mention it in the article because the article is hosted on the same domain (with a link to it at very top of page) so thought it was quite obvious. Also I wanted it to stand alone as an essay to see what people thought. If i linked to the product within the article it would turn the whole article into an advert rather than an essay
Okay, but you don’t even mention spaced repetition until the end and only in a single sentence. And obviousness is relative; I did not even notice the logo and base domain, read the title and scanned the text for core concepts, spaced repetition again is only mentioned once, even though in my opinion it’s literally both the topic and your solution to the issue; which was not obvious until I read your comments. Think…
Not really. There are different learning styles. I find memorization very difficult (poor passive recall), yet my comprehension is superior (aiding deduction.) I find many with “photographic memory” to be sadly inadequate at comprehending and exploiting interrelationships. There is something like dexterity which develops in the mind, an impression left which is not exactly remembering, yet definitely stored in the br…
Learning styles are a myth https://www.techlearning.com/news/busting-the-myth-of-learni...