Been using space repetition since 2013. It's unbelievably useful. Wrote about it in my blog with examples: https://www.blinkingcaret.com/2016/05/04/hack-your-brain-lea...
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#22I've been doing the "30 hour method" as described here: https://azeria-labs.com/the-importance-of-deep-work-the-30-h...
It's sort of like the Pomodoro technique, except with 30-hour chunks instead of 30-minute chunks. (Obviously they serve different purposes.)
After studying a topic, while it is still fresh in my mind, I will make a few entries into my spaced repetition system (org-mode) and then I only review the entries between each of the 30-hour blocks. This means I'm only reviewing entries maybe twice a month at most. Yet, the spaced repetition still works well, and surprisingly, it doesn't take long before I'll only have one or two entries to review during my rare study sessions.
My point being, even if you study your spaced repetition entries only once a month, it will still work.
It also helps me not become too obsessed with creating cards for every little thing. I study a topic for a few weeks, and only at the end do I even think about spaced repetition and making cards. I review what I've learned (I do take notes sometimes) and make only a few cards for the most important topics. Ultimately I'm only thinking about or interacting with spaced repetition systems one or two days a month. Again, they still work even when used so rarely.
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#23I use Anki, but I have the problem that I tend to associate the specific form of the question, a particular latex formula etc. with the answer. As soon as I look at the question or read the first couple of words, the answer already pops up, so I'm afraid that I don't actually learn to remember the concepts but rather question/answer pairs. Does anybody have some recommendations for dealing with this problem?
So spaced repetition is of course designed for memorizing facts, not learning and integrating complicated concepts, but the danger of memorizing a particular visual presentation of the question prompt is well taken. My only suggestion would be to prepare multiple versions of the same question. This might initially lead to the different versions being collectively shown more often than the ideal spaced repetition frequency for a single fact, but assuming learning is transferring between version (i.e., they are reinforcing each other), maybe it works out in the long term?
Very interested to hear what others suggest.
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#24This is a great essay. An exciting practical use case is seen in Duolingo. They use a regression model to learn the half-life of individual words for users.
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#25I have created a flashcards app for Android that tries to use sort of a spaced repetition system, just if anyone is interested in trying:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=flashcards.wor...
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#26If anyone's interested, I've compiled a lot of strategies and tips around spaced repetition and Anki that I've learned over five years and ~11k cards.
https://senrigan.io/blog/everything-i-know-strategies-tips-a...
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#27I’ve been using spaced repetition to do algorithm puzzles. I find them really fun, and I’ll be looking for a job in a little less than a year. So, I thought I’d get a jumpstart on preparing. I don’t use them to memorize the answers, but more as a cue to do the problem. I add 1-5 new cards a day. The cards aren’t facts, but actual problems. It’s been really effective so far. I can pretty easily recognize what the piec…
Can you share an example card? I can’t picture what you’re doing.
Other examples of cards that I made and found useful during my job-hunting process: https://cards.c13u.com/browse[0]
[0] Disclaimer, I made cards.c13u.com for a class project
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you share an example card? I can’t picture what you’re doing.
Other examples of cards that I made and found useful during my job-hunting process: https://cards.c13u.com/browse[0] [0] Disclaimer, I made cards.c13u.com for a class project
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#29I had considered using spaced repetition software for a while after a long time of being frustrated with my poor memory. I finally started using Anki last September after reading Augmenting Long-term Memory [1]. I started off with just putting in a new vocabulary word every day and have been gradually ramping up the amount of info that I put into it. Now, I will add anything from programming details (e.g. how do you…
Considering how many people are learning Rust, I think that Anki Rust cards could be a huge hit. What do you think?
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#30I had considered using spaced repetition software for a while after a long time of being frustrated with my poor memory. I finally started using Anki last September after reading Augmenting Long-term Memory [1]. I started off with just putting in a new vocabulary word every day and have been gradually ramping up the amount of info that I put into it. Now, I will add anything from programming details (e.g. how do you…
Considering how many people are learning Rust, I think that Anki Rust cards could be a huge hit. What do you think?
That could be helpful for some, but personally, I don't use any premade decks because the act of making cards is part of the learning process.