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Sort of off topic, but I'm always really surprised how well posts about spaced repetition and Anki do on HN. I've been in the spaced repetition community for years and we honestly feel extremely niche and small even amongst eachother. It's cool to see that the community might be larger than I thought.
aren't multibillion dollar companies like duolingo built on spaced repetition. Not sure id call it niche.
I've tried out AwesomeTTS but found it a bit too complicated. Just want to automatically add TTS with one click ideally.
Very cool. I actually built an app called "Johnny Mnemonic" around 5 years ago that generated a mnemonic sentence given a list of terms when I was studying for my EMT license. At the time I leveraged a simple n-gram markov model that I based off the publicly available Cornell Movie script database. I added a couple settings like word order(matters: colors of the rainbow, doesn't matter: bones of the skull), anagram v…
Perhaps off topic, not sure, but does anyone have opinions on the easiest way to add bilingual TTS? I am trying to make Mandarin language learning decks and having free automated TTS would be very useful. I've tried out AwesomeTTS but found it a bit too complicated. Just want to automatically add TTS with one click ideally.
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I am tempted to say yes, but in truthfulness it really depends on a lot of details. If we are just talking about the card creation phase, then I recommend other tools I made, especially voice 2 Anki (posted on hn at the same time but has not taken off for some reason :) ) If we are talking about the actual learning and memorizing phase, then yes, I think those tools are valuable. But that being said, I'm also sure th…
That's fair advice! Creating cards is also learning, so if you generate content using LLMs instead then you'll be missing out.
Congrats on your repo. Good to see more fellow medics using github! One comment I would make on your approach to putting anki to work for you with medicine, is that it seems to rely on a 'factoids' approach, as opposed to a 'systematic' approach. This may not be the case with your learning more generally, but this is how your anki seems to be structured, so I am keen to make this observation: the problem with a 'fact…
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I think the idea of "optimized learning" is largely appealing to us nerds and electron technicians. Personally, I would love to have the dopamine response that allows for repetitive tasks to become appealing. Unfortunately, I've roasted my attention with social media and YouTube.
For me it grew from a horror of the state I find myself when I just *can't* recall something I have known or have to lookup things several times. Then the satisfaction of never having that feeling again!
Perhaps off topic, not sure, but does anyone have opinions on the easiest way to add bilingual TTS? I am trying to make Mandarin language learning decks and having free automated TTS would be very useful. I've tried out AwesomeTTS but found it a bit too complicated. Just want to automatically add TTS with one click ideally.
In that thread I first heard about anki smart notes : https://www.smart-notes.xyz/