Augmenting long-term memory (2018)
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Augmenting long-term memory (2018)
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Re: Augmenting long-term memory (2018)
#2Discussed at the time:
Augmenting Long-term Memory - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17460513 - July 2018 (36 comments)
Re: Augmenting long-term memory (2018)
#3For the past few months, I've spent most of my nights and weekends working on an LLM-based learning management system called Reasonote, which aims to hybridize the SRS strategies of Anki with the smoothness of Duolingo. It focuses on a curiosity driven approach, where users can aggregate "Skills" into their library as they participate in Activities. Activities can be anything -- flashcards, quizzes, games, chatrooms -- and can be dynamically generated, or manually created if you prefer.
I'll be releasing more information soon, but since this article's content seems aligned with my mission (build the Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, or something better), I wanted to give it a mention.
If you'd like to beta test, or collaborate, please send me a note directly, explaining what skills you most want to learn -- luke (at) lukebechtel.com
Re: Augmenting long-term memory (2018)
#4For the past few months, I've spent most of my nights and weekends working on an LLM-based learning management system called Reasonote, which aims to hybridize the SRS strategies of Anki with the smoothness of Duolingo. It focuses on a curiosity driven approach, where users can aggregate "Skills" into their library as they participate in Activities. Activities can be anything -- flashcards, quizzes, games, chatrooms…
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Re: Augmenting long-term memory (2018)
#5Pleased to see this posted here again. Nielsen's writing on Anki and memory systems more broadly has been nothing short of incisive, inspiring and paradigm-shifting in contributing to the ongoing "hermeneutic turn" within the community. Whilst this is not as evident as with his later essays, ATLM lays the foundations for some of the most important points for beginners of using the tool: a focus on coherence, disambiguation, and crystallisation as virtues of an Ankification practice; and above all shifting the conversation from it as a miserable prosthetic to memorise arbitrary associations to a genuinely beautiful tool that you can use to shape and change what you know, are and do.
The former interpretation's popularisation does unfortunately seem to be the outcome of it being embedded within the epistemic ecologies of language learning and medical school, two situations where Anki is almost inevitable if one is to succeed, but also where its unique power of meaning making is most neglected. As he writes in "Building a better memory system" [1], targeting the audience of the creative expert seems to be where the most tractability in expanding and improving a mnemonic practice lies. I hope such progress continues in the vein of current open-source and community-oriented advancements such as FSRS - the best feature of which is making switching from SuperMemo all the more obvious ;)
Re: Augmenting long-term memory (2018)
#6For the past few months, I've spent most of my nights and weekends working on an LLM-based learning management system called Reasonote, which aims to hybridize the SRS strategies of Anki with the smoothness of Duolingo. It focuses on a curiosity driven approach, where users can aggregate "Skills" into their library as they participate in Activities. Activities can be anything -- flashcards, quizzes, games, chatrooms…
Can you give some example usecases of your application? I wonder how it scales to complex (in terms of structure) information processing, e.g. digesting scientific topics
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#7If you enjoyed the OP, then Andy Matuschak’s article on how to write good prompts (cards) should also be interesting for you. And if you want to learn more about the research behind spaced repetition, then Gwern’s article is pretty good.
https://andymatuschak.org/prompts/ https://gwern.net/spaced-repetition
Re: Augmenting long-term memory (2018)
#8If you enjoyed the OP, then Andy Matuschak’s article on how to write good prompts (cards) should also be interesting for you. And if you want to learn more about the research behind spaced repetition, then Gwern’s article is pretty good. https://andymatuschak.org/prompts/ https://gwern.net/spaced-repetition
20 rules for formulating knowledge [1] are also very useful. They were written by the creator of SuperMemo, which to my knowledge developed a lot of the spaced repetition algorithms.
For example Anki, the software talked about in the article, uses the SM-2 algorithm by default which was developed by SuperMemo.
[1]: https://www.supermemo.com/en/blog/twenty-rules-of-formulatin...
Re: Augmenting long-term memory (2018)
#9Pleased to see this posted here again. Nielsen's writing on Anki and memory systems more broadly has been nothing short of incisive, inspiring and paradigm-shifting in contributing to the ongoing "hermeneutic turn" within the community. Whilst this is not as evident as with his later essays, ATLM lays the foundations for some of the most important points for beginners of using the tool: a focus on coherence, disambig…
I'd switch to FSRS, but the short-term workload increase is too much for me. I know it can be avpided by only enabling FARS for new decks and then gradually shifting over the entire collection, but that I don't think I'd like my collection fragmented over multiple spacing algorithms.
For now, Anki's v3 algorithm is good enough for me. The only thing I didn't like about v2 was the lack of buzz factor which meant that a lot of closely related flashcards showed up in the same reviewing session, making review of such cards slightly ineffective.
Re: Augmenting long-term memory (2018)
#10Pleased to see this posted here again. Nielsen's writing on Anki and memory systems more broadly has been nothing short of incisive, inspiring and paradigm-shifting in contributing to the ongoing "hermeneutic turn" within the community. Whilst this is not as evident as with his later essays, ATLM lays the foundations for some of the most important points for beginners of using the tool: a focus on coherence, disambig…
I don't get where the "miserable prosthetic" thing comes from. Teen me discovered spaced repetition around 10 years ago and considered it absolutely revolutionary even then - an actual way to combat having a bad memory!