i want this same thing for notion
you could try https://neuracache.com/
Anki and GPT-3
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#12i want this same thing for notion
can you elaborate more?
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#13As a daily Anki user, I am highly skeptical of this idea. The careful creation of new cards is one of the key parts in learning the material. It promotes a critical thinking step where you have to distill the material down into small but important pieces and (if you want to do it well) forces you to evaluate if you have actually understood what you wrote down. I suspect that forgoing this step will not lead to unders…
Yep, a large aspect of flashcards when studying or the occasions when in college they allow you to bring notes to exams involves the aspect of personally curating the material and thinking about it during the process.
Perhaps the gpt can find truly useful information, but if you don't know why it's useful you're just filling up your memory with material you don't know how to utilize well.
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#14As a daily Anki user, I am highly skeptical of this idea. The careful creation of new cards is one of the key parts in learning the material. It promotes a critical thinking step where you have to distill the material down into small but important pieces and (if you want to do it well) forces you to evaluate if you have actually understood what you wrote down. I suspect that forgoing this step will not lead to unders…
It's a classic beginner mistake to load up a 20000 word deck and start learning it when you have no relationship or connection to the cards. Create a card when you first see the word in real life, with that example sentence on the back, and it's so much easier to remember. At least for me anyway.
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#15Very cool! However, I often feel like the process of generating the question/answer necessary for the Anki card is an important part of the learning process because it forces you do deeply think about the material and reflect on it. So I think there is a trade-off involved
Absolutely you lose a lot of effectiveness when you automate card creation. But it's still better than thinking, "Oh, I should make a card about this so I don't forget this important thing..." and never doing it. For me the biggest risk is being tempted to making way too many cards (because it's so fast and easy now!), end up with way too many reviews, and declaring Anki bankruptcy and uninstalling the app after a fe…
imo if you don't make the card then either: the word isn't important, or it comes up again, and you finally do make the card. It's not a big deal.
I'm about 10 years on my Anki deck and have reached the same conclusion as you about keeping deck size down. A single card has a huge time investment if you add up the reviews. Even more if it's a bad card and you fail it a lot. As the words you learn get more and more niche, it's important to weigh up whether a card is worth making or keeping. I actively delete cards that make me feel 'meh' when I see them, or that I fail a lot, so I don't lose motivation.
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#16This is pretty cool.
One of the things I think is hugely important about GPT3 is that it's paid for by the token. So for small users, it's pretty cheap, and it's fully workable for testing and experimentation.
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#17From my experience, automatically generated flashcards are often disappointing. Recently I've been experimenting with the use of GitHub copilot for accelerating cards creation and I can wholeheartedly recommend this approach, I've noticed at least 2x speed up in the process without sacrificing cards quality
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#18As a daily Anki user, I am highly skeptical of this idea. The careful creation of new cards is one of the key parts in learning the material. It promotes a critical thinking step where you have to distill the material down into small but important pieces and (if you want to do it well) forces you to evaluate if you have actually understood what you wrote down. I suspect that forgoing this step will not lead to unders…
I agree that generating your own content is better for learning material. But disagree the effect is so large as to nullify any benefits of training.
If you have not drilling material on one end, and writing your own questions on the other. I think drilling gpt generated questions is probably closer to the latter than the former.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Absolutely you lose a lot of effectiveness when you automate card creation. But it's still better than thinking, "Oh, I should make a card about this so I don't forget this important thing..." and never doing it. For me the biggest risk is being tempted to making way too many cards (because it's so fast and easy now!), end up with way too many reviews, and declaring Anki bankruptcy and uninstalling the app after a fe…
imo if you don't make the card then either: the word isn't important, or it comes up again, and you finally do make the card. It's not a big deal. I'm about 10 years on my Anki deck and have reached the same conclusion as you about keeping deck size down. A single card has a huge time investment if you add up the reviews. Even more if it's a bad card and you fail it a lot. As the words you learn get more and more nic…
These days I have a policy to just suspend once the interval hits six months, so that deck size has a max cap and can eventually go to zero if adds stop for a long enough period. Long enough to bootstrap niche words and hopefully maintain them through reading.
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#20As a daily Anki user, I am highly skeptical of this idea. The careful creation of new cards is one of the key parts in learning the material. It promotes a critical thinking step where you have to distill the material down into small but important pieces and (if you want to do it well) forces you to evaluate if you have actually understood what you wrote down. I suspect that forgoing this step will not lead to unders…
Totally agree. But I'm tempted solve this by adding MORE AI. Have the tool prompt GPT to quiz you about the new card, or force you to use a new language vocabulary word a bunch of times. Maybe even argue against you adding the card and try to convince it it's worthwhile information.
USER: Add a new Anki card for, "It is important to set a high standard from day one."
GPT: That seems like generic advice. Of course high standards are better than low standards in a vacuum, but everything has a cost. Being too rigid in setting high standards may limit the business's flexibility to adapt to changing market conditions, customer needs, and technological advancements. Are you sure high standards are that important?
(That criticism actually generated with GPT, using the example the author of the tool Tweeted.)