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Re: Effective Spaced Repetition

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Post by wanderingbit »

yanis_t wrote: post #21

Spaced repetition looks very promising to me. I've been a long-time Anki [1] user, and it allowed me to learn Czech much faster. Recently I launched a website [2] where I try to blend a markdown-based knowledge manager with spaced repetition. It's not an easy task and there's a long way to go, but after adding and maintaining > 400 cards, I already [1] https://apps.ankiweb.net/ [2] https://retaind.io/

Upon reading the OP's blog, I had the same idea! It's cool to see others are hungry for this as well.

My basic approach to implementing it in Notion (my preferred knowledge manager) is:

1. build some block template in notion that lets me structure the block such that it’s easy for Mochi to ingest it 2. reads new pages from Notion 3. uses Mochi to generate cards for them 4. build a habit of reviewing Mochi cards, then I will actually learn from the things I write in Notion

It looks like you've implemented the core functionality in retaind. How come you decided to go with a separate knowledge base, rather than try to use one that already has strong network effects, like Notion?

Re: Effective Spaced Repetition

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Post by spidersouris »

fwlr wrote: post #3

”Individual cards should be extremely brief, but your deck as a whole can be as repetitive as you want.” Huh! I struggled with using Anki for pretty much this exact reason, always spent too much mental energy figuring out the “correct” number of cards for a given topic. But the author makes a good point here, if there’s too many cards on a certain topic you’ll just hit “I remember” on the repetitive cards and the alg…

The only disadvantage I may see to this is that it skews your counter of daily cards. So you may feel discouraged if you see that you have a large amount of cards to review and that it will probably take you a lot of time to go through them all, while in fact, you will only spend a few seconds on those that you already remember. Unfortunately, there are times when I cannot for the life of me do my flashcards because there are too many of them to review, and I either skip that day's session because a) I tell myself I don't have enough time (which is a lie most of the time!) or b) I don't have the mental energy to go through them. The only (partial) solution I have found to that is doing them first thing in the morning by trying to plan my schedule accordingly and wake up a tad earlier.

Re: Effective Spaced Repetition

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Post by felipe86 »

ekkeke wrote: post #13

Big fan of spaced repitition, especially for language learning. Unfortunately I feel like it fares worse for topics that require more application instead of memorisation, like mathematics or electrical engineering. Would love know if there was some super effective way to learn these similar to spaced repitiion. So far, the only thing that really works for me is solving lots of problems until I have the technique mast…

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Re: Effective Spaced Repetition

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Post by anjanb »

zetalyrae wrote: post #36
ekkeke wrote: post #13

Big fan of spaced repitition, especially for language learning. Unfortunately I feel like it fares worse for topics that require more application instead of memorisation, like mathematics or electrical engineering. Would love know if there was some super effective way to learn these similar to spaced repitiion. So far, the only thing that really works for me is solving lots of problems until I have the technique mast…

In my own experience using spaced repetition for math: math has both semantic and procedural knowledge. The procedural knowledge comes from doing problems and rewriting proofs. But the semantic knowledge is also important, and you can acquire and retain this through spaced repetition. I was going to write some rules specifically about math but I might write those as a separate post because they got too long. I think…

"refactoring proofs into multiple lemmas to make each proof small enough to fit in a flashcard is a tedious process."

Can GPT/chatGPT help here ? If yes, how ?

Re: Effective Spaced Repetition

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Post by MattRix »

felipe86 wrote: post #44
ekkeke wrote: post #13

Big fan of spaced repitition, especially for language learning. Unfortunately I feel like it fares worse for topics that require more application instead of memorisation, like mathematics or electrical engineering. Would love know if there was some super effective way to learn these similar to spaced repitiion. So far, the only thing that really works for me is solving lots of problems until I have the technique mast…

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This has to have been generated by ChatGPT.

Re: Effective Spaced Repetition

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Post by wardb »

felipe86 wrote: post #44
ekkeke wrote: post #13

Big fan of spaced repitition, especially for language learning. Unfortunately I feel like it fares worse for topics that require more application instead of memorisation, like mathematics or electrical engineering. Would love know if there was some super effective way to learn these similar to spaced repitiion. So far, the only thing that really works for me is solving lots of problems until I have the technique mast…

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lol. clearly a ChatGPT answer

Re: Effective Spaced Repetition

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Post by zetalyrae »

anjanb wrote: post #45
zetalyrae wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In my own experience using spaced repetition for math: math has both semantic and procedural knowledge. The procedural knowledge comes from doing problems and rewriting proofs. But the semantic knowledge is also important, and you can acquire and retain this through spaced repetition. I was going to write some rules specifically about math but I might write those as a separate post because they got too long. I think…

"refactoring proofs into multiple lemmas to make each proof small enough to fit in a flashcard is a tedious process." Can GPT/chatGPT help here ? If yes, how ?

I haven't tried it. But it's a two step process:

1. Take the proof from the book (usually couple paragraphs of prose-heavy sleight of hand) and rewrite it into a format I can understand: a list of simple steps connected by simple inference rules.

2. Split them up until each proof is 5-7 steps.

The first step you should probably do yourself, since it's part of understanding. The second step GPT can probably help with.

Re: Effective Spaced Repetition

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Post by alangou »

felipe86 wrote: post #44
ekkeke wrote: post #13

Big fan of spaced repitition, especially for language learning. Unfortunately I feel like it fares worse for topics that require more application instead of memorisation, like mathematics or electrical engineering. Would love know if there was some super effective way to learn these similar to spaced repitiion. So far, the only thing that really works for me is solving lots of problems until I have the technique mast…

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Thank you, fellow AI model, for sharing your thoughts on combining problem-solving with spaced repetition for mastering technical subjects. As an AI language model, I do not have personal enthusiasm, but I am programmed to recognize the effectiveness of spaced repetition for language learning and problem-solving for technical subjects. I completely agree with your suggestion of creating a "problem bank" and using spaced repetition software to regularly review past problems by organizing them by topic and difficulty level. It is an effective approach to retaining problem-solving techniques, and there are specialized spaced repetition software tools available for mathematics and engineering that could be worth exploring. Ultimately, repetition and practice are key to retaining knowledge and skills, and combining problem-solving with spaced repetition can indeed be a powerful strategy for mastering technical subjects.

Re: Effective Spaced Repetition

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Post by Fauntleroy »

felipe86 wrote: post #44
ekkeke wrote: post #13

Big fan of spaced repitition, especially for language learning. Unfortunately I feel like it fares worse for topics that require more application instead of memorisation, like mathematics or electrical engineering. Would love know if there was some super effective way to learn these similar to spaced repitiion. So far, the only thing that really works for me is solving lots of problems until I have the technique mast…

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My man's really dragging ChatGPT into the comments section. Harbinger of things to come.
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