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Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by indigoabstract »

_teyd wrote: post #32
sivers wrote: post #18

My boy is 11 now. We've used Anki with him every day since he was about 5. Examples of things he's memorized, for fun: * every country, recognized by unlabeled shape on the map * spelling * many body parts, names of bones and organs, from illustration * chemical elements, by symbol (Na, Fe, Zn, etc) * unix filesystem commands * numeracy references (km from here to Japan, earth to sun, meters from home to school) * re…

I swear I have read this exact same comment before Edit: oh good I’m not crazy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38428309

Proof for everyone that these programs do work. You have a good memory!

:)

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by 1024core »

Jtsummers wrote: post #270
1024core wrote: post #268

I wanted to fire up the AnkiDroid app on my Android device (which I installed a couple of years ago), and all I get is an error saying: "Please grant AnkiDroid storage permission to continue" and there's no way forward.

I suspect that's because it needs to store the cards and media. Are you unable to grant it storage permissions for some reason?

I don't see any "storage permissions" option. Android 14.

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by pessimizer »

pavelboyko wrote: post #36

Spaced repetition, especially when using tools like Anki, is effective for memorizing facts. However, memorization represents the most basic level of learning objectives, see e.g. [1] and [2]. Are there any recommended tools for practicing more advanced levels of knowledge, such as relational analysis, synthesis, and critical evaluation? [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_taxonomy [2] https://en.m.wikipedi…

Supermemo (an earlier-established piece of Anki-adjacent software) and its fans are big pushers of something called "Incremental Reading":

https://supermemo.guru/wiki/Incremental_reading

https://www.help.supermemo.org/wiki/Incremental_reading

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by Jtsummers »

Swalden123 wrote: post #276
Jtsummers wrote: post #253

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You can suspend cards and decks, but also you can skip days. It'll create a backlog of cards to review, but that's surmountable. The number can become intimidating (I think my worst was around 2k cards), but there are a few ways to clear it. You can "just" get back into the daily habit, it'll take (by the default numbers, if one deck) # cards/100 days to clear out, more or less (some cards may come up for review agai…

I get skipping days is against the algorithm, but wouldn’t it be better to simply freeze the algorithm for a few days opposed to get a backlog at all? A backlog would break the habit for me making me unlikely to return.

Skipping days is not against the algorithm, it accounts for skipped days.

In a simplified system suppose that we just double easy card review times, and reset hard cards back to 1. You have a card up for review today, you last saw it N days ago. Two scenarios:

1. You don't delay. You review the card now. It's either hard and reset to 1 (see it again tomorrow) or easy and you see it again in 2N days.

2. You delay. You review it M days from now. When you finally do it's either hard and reset to 1 (see it again the next day) or easy and you see it again in 2(N + M) days.

That's it. The algorithm has you covered if you delay. It doesn't do something silly like say "This card was supposed to be reviewed after 2 days, but you waited a month. You remembered it, but we're going to show it to you again in 4 days." The algorithms will take the delay into account (maybe not one-for-one) like I illustrated above.

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by Jtsummers »

1024core wrote: post #282
Jtsummers wrote: post #270

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suspect that's because it needs to store the cards and media. Are you unable to grant it storage permissions for some reason?

I don't see any "storage permissions" option. Android 14.

https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/issues/14423

Looks like a bug with AnkiDroid and different Android versions (if the app was installed on a prior version of Android and Android was upgraded). Some workarounds in that thread.

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by bheadmaster »

sivers wrote: post #233
packetlost wrote: post #171

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That's super weird, I wonder if GP just copy-pasted it or if there's some other weird automated business going on.

Yeah sorry, I started writing the comment, then had deja vu, so I looked at my HN history, realized I'd already said it better before, and thought it was worth just pasting the previous one. Not automated.

Damn, that's a really human-like response. This bot game is really getting serious.

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by samus »

redcobra762 wrote: post #279
samus wrote: post #274

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Using Anki is not a goal in itself. It's just a tool to help you cram facts into your brain. Once you have done that, you can and should build associations and knowledge on top of them. Reviews ensure that less-often used facts are not forgotten. Anki is fine for that. But creating Anki cards is effectively a form of review as well. If you automate that, then you miss out on going through your own notes, engaging wit…

> If you automate that, then you miss out on going through your own notes, engaging with the subject, and subdividing it into self-contained pieces Why wouldn't you get this? You just don't have to do it in order to make Anki cards. > which is required to come up with good cards Yes, and ChatGPT does this for you. This isn't theoretical. I've used this to get As in multiple classes in college. This works.

Of course you don't have to create your own cards, but they would work better if you did. You can use ChatGPT to automate onerous tasks, but have to compensate for it by engaging with the material in other ways. I doubt that grinding decks is enough. Depends on the activity and the goal I guess. Acing exams, sure, without doubt.

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Post by pawelduda »

SamPatt wrote: post #70

One tip for working with Anki: you will likely learn better - and review cards more regularly - if you write the cards yourself instead of using a preexisting deck. Going through a course / textbook -> taking notes on paper -> adding key concepts as Anki flashcards -> reviewing them daily: extremely effective Preexisting decks can work - I used one to successfully study for my Amateur Radio License - but that assumes…

Using someone else's decks in Anki === using vim with someone else's .vimrc

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by bitcoinmoney »

sivers wrote: post #260
FemmeAndroid wrote: post #136

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Are these separate decks or a single deck for your son? Do things come out of the deck(s)? What triggers that?

His decks: * computer * culture * English * math * music * nature * where I don't think we've ever pulled anything out of the deck. There are some cards that it says, when we mark [easy], that it will ask him again in 6 years. We joke about how at the age of 17 it will be asking him how to spell "sing", or whatever.

Can we get a copy of your deck?

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by kiba »

jhrmnn wrote: post #132
itsrajju wrote: post #25

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Your boy is precious! He's on his way to becoming a highly intelligent adult. I've seen a lot of people going like... why remember stuff when you can easily google it? But it doesn't work that way. The more facts reside in your brain, the more avenues it has to connect them together and generate insights (after all, that thing is the OG "neural network"). I highly admire your parenting in this aspect, and I hope to d…

I’ve never remembered anything by memorization. Only at school and university for exams, and only to promptly forget it one week later. The stuff that I have remembered for years I learned organically by using it, as part of some mental process, by embedding it in some larger structure. Be it coding, physics, or history. So I think this is a fairly individual matter

That's spaced repetition in a nutshell.
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