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Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system

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Post by fercircularbuf »

BeetleB wrote: post #99
0cf8612b2e1e wrote: post #44

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I love this example because the correct, wise approach is so alien to my mind that I do not know how to respond to such situations. I am a professional problem solver, you described a problem, yet you do not want it solved? Just talk about it being annoying, like an immutable facet of the universe? Should I retort about my grievances with gravity making roof repairs a bear?

> I am a professional problem solver, you described a problem, yet you do not want it solved? This will be hard for you to believe, but I will easily wager good money that at times you yourself behave this way. You only become aware of it after both below are satisfied: 1. You've encountered someone as annoying as yourself :-) 2. You learn a bit more about the dynamics of conversations. If there's any time someone go…

Thank you for this post and your suggested readings!

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Post by notpushkin »

BeetleB wrote: post #99
0cf8612b2e1e wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love this example because the correct, wise approach is so alien to my mind that I do not know how to respond to such situations. I am a professional problem solver, you described a problem, yet you do not want it solved? Just talk about it being annoying, like an immutable facet of the universe? Should I retort about my grievances with gravity making roof repairs a bear?

> I am a professional problem solver, you described a problem, yet you do not want it solved? This will be hard for you to believe, but I will easily wager good money that at times you yourself behave this way. You only become aware of it after both below are satisfied: 1. You've encountered someone as annoying as yourself :-) 2. You learn a bit more about the dynamics of conversations. If there's any time someone go…

> 1. You've encountered someone as annoying as yourself :-)

> 2. You learn a bit more about the dynamics of conversations.

This is the last thing I expected to find under a post about an SRS, but I think I’ve just gone through this over the course of this year. (I knew I was extremely annoying at times, but didn’t realize how much annoying I was, and what to do. I think I know now :’)

Love HN for weird tangents like this. Thanks for the reading list!

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Post by btilly »

seizethecheese wrote: post #89
epolanski wrote: post #64

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Interesting example with some questionable couple dynamics.

Looks really healthy to me. It’s unhealthy when a partner can’t recognize that they actually were at fault and try to change, but instead needs every fight to resolve with “we were both wrong”.

To add color, this is an interaction that started with one person being stressed. Expecting ideal behavior out of a stressed person is unreasonable.

Re: Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system

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Post by btilly »

EE84M3i wrote: post #91
btilly wrote: post #58

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My prompt for that is, When did I last dramatically fail Kate at decision support? Recalling the scene and the details is part of the exercise. I do the visualization while journaling about it. Here is an example of what that written record looks like. Aug 19, 2025. She was stressed because she thought that Phoenix’ dentist was ripping her off. A couple of quick suggestions later, and her meltdown was not about how b…

How do you grade a card like this?

The entire idea behind "grading" doesn't work.

I simply space on a Fibonacci sequence, and the fact that it is overkill for being able to answer is a feature. Because my goal is to react the right way in similar situations, not to get an answer right on the written test.

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Post by CGamesPlay »

tvshtr wrote: post #83
yellow_lead wrote: post #19

I'm happy to see others in the space, but I wish Anki competitors would implement a decent 'import from Anki' feature. Otherwise, I think most existing users of SRS are unlikely to switch (because we use Anki and have thousands of cards there already). The data format of Anki is a bit complicated but at least it's SQLite. I've seen a ton of shared decks and resources on ankiweb, but it's true you can't easily put the…

I think that many devs missed the fact that Anki went through major rewrite and all of its business logic/its brain/api are now contained in few rust crates. They're a pleasure to work with and it's very easy to write alternative frontends (just finished one). You don't have to import anything because you can just use the same db, and cards as Anki.

Wow, I haven't used Anki since... before they switched to date-based releases, but the new version is a big step improvement from versions I have used previously. When I updated, opening the app for the first time opened the terminal for a text-based installer, which didn't inspire confidence, but it's well improved. (This isn't really related to the backend changes you're mentioning, but this comment inspired me to take another look at Anki.)

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Post by btilly »

jkhdigital wrote: post #77
btilly wrote: post #70

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This attitude reminds me of another phrase that I've internalized. Choosing to be right, is choosing to be alone. Whatever you choose to put above trying to get along with others, limits who can be part of your group. In the extreme, you will feel absolutely justified. And yet be absolutely alone. As an example, language communities that focus on being able to find the ideal way to program (eg Lisp) tend to splinter.…

I often hear a different version of that quote: You can be right, or you can be happy.

One of the reasons of my version is that it points my attention at the actual decision - would I prefer to be right, or to cut this person off? The answer isn't always to please others.

Re: Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system

#108

Post by btilly »

seizethecheese wrote: post #88

Curious what HN thinks about a spaced repetition social network. You could mark items in the feed to space repeat for yourself. This would also function as a “retweet”, which would align incentives such that content that gets promoted is actually durably useful or interesting. The posts people make would repeat to themselves too, so the source content should be good.

I have no idea when I'll go on a cruise next. But if I do and make friends on the cruise, I'm going to call them afterwards on a spaced repetition schedule.

I think that this should turn some of those temporary friendships into lifelong ones instead!

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Post by spankibalt »

EE84M3i wrote: post #91
btilly wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My prompt for that is, When did I last dramatically fail Kate at decision support? Recalling the scene and the details is part of the exercise. I do the visualization while journaling about it. Here is an example of what that written record looks like. Aug 19, 2025. She was stressed because she thought that Phoenix’ dentist was ripping her off. A couple of quick suggestions later, and her meltdown was not about how b…

How do you grade a card like this?

One could grade how close or accurate one's reaction was to "reacting the right way in similar situations", which was the stated goal:

> "Because my goal is to react the right way in similar situations, [...]."

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