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Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by burntwater »

redcobra762 wrote: post #317
burntwater wrote: post #307

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Would you mind giving an example of the kind of prompt(s) you use to get these card generated? On a different note, ChatGPT has been making me feel stupid because I fail to come up with many use cases, while it seems like tons of technically unskilled people come up with all kinds of uses...

I'm no good at prompt engineering, so I iterate a lot, rather than trying to come up with the perfect prompt. I start by asking something like, "please generate a series of short questions and answers that conform to a flashcard format, easy for studying, from these notes" The responses were too verbose, so I asked: "Please shorten the answers to short, easily memorizable lines" That returned pretty good flashcards,…

Very helpful, thank you!

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Post by knubie »

jwells89 wrote: post #101

Been using Anki on and off for years for learning Japanese and more recently, have been using it for studying for university courses. It’s a great tool, but it’s definitely got some oddities, like how its editor has every formatting and templating tool under the sun but is somehow missing spell check, how some features can only be had through fragile extensions, or how for some reason it’s one of the few programs one…

Check out Mochi if you’re looking for an alternative. It probably ticks most of your boxes already.

https://mochi.cards/

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Post by cratermoon »

arboles wrote: post #245
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…

Interesting, because the creator of Supermemo wrote that Spaced Repetition doesn't work on children because their brain re-arranges and repurposes structures far too much, making children's forgetting curve far too unpredictable, or at least different from adults. https://supermemo.guru/wiki/SuperMemo_does_not_work_for_kids Spaced repetition flaschard software is all about scheduling the flashcards around predictions…

I'm not certain that the research on forgetting curves has nailed down the timelines well. I know the Supermemo creator thinks his algorithm is best, but I suspect there's a lot of wiggle room and individual differences. Who besides Ebbinghaus has published rigorously on it?

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Post by brobinson »

bheadmaster wrote: post #286
sivers wrote: post #233

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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.

Sivers is an OG. Definitely not a bot. I've looked at sivers.org/multiply at least once per year for the last 15 years.

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Post by Andrew1024 »

rickcarlino wrote: post #249

I love how much attention spaced repetition gets on HN. Does anyone know if there are any communities for researchers or engineers working on spaces repetition and adjacent problems? /r/spacedRepetition is basicly dead. I really wish there was a place where I could discuss space repetition research with technical peers. if such a place does not yet exist and there is interest in creating one, please reach out I am ea…

You can check out https://old.reddit.com/r/Anki/

As much as I don’t like Reddit, I still find it better than Discord. Purely because it’s discoverable by the search engine

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Post by aidog »

brobinson wrote: post #334
bheadmaster wrote: post #286

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

Sivers is an OG. Definitely not a bot. I've looked at sivers.org/multiply at least once per year for the last 15 years.

Derek is so cool. I'm a huge ruby nerd and his approach to coding is so refreshing. [1] No libraries except sqlite for instance.

[1] youtube.com/watch?v=No3sUctcAOA

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by jw903 »

burntwater wrote: post #331
redcobra762 wrote: post #317

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I'm no good at prompt engineering, so I iterate a lot, rather than trying to come up with the perfect prompt. I start by asking something like, "please generate a series of short questions and answers that conform to a flashcard format, easy for studying, from these notes" The responses were too verbose, so I asked: "Please shorten the answers to short, easily memorizable lines" That returned pretty good flashcards,…

Very helpful, thank you!

thank you!

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by [deleted] »

kiba wrote: post #290
jhrmnn wrote: post #132

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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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Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by dfee »

clbrmbr wrote: post #12

I used Anki to learn to recognize the top 300 plant species (and top mushroom species) in my area by sight. Totally changed my perception of nature.

Wow. This is a very cool idea. I occasionally get discouraged that I don’t know what trees are around me - because it reflects a disconnect from nature. This may be a great trick!

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Post by rikafurude21 »

kirill5pol wrote: post #208
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…

I definitely agree that to absolutely maximize learning you should write the cards yourself but I think it really depends on the value of the content, say it may be 2x as effective for learning but take 5x the amount of effort. For some things where you want to learn but don't want to/have time to put in full effort premade cards are better than nothing. For example, I ended up learning German to B1 level from Duolin…

Is duolingo actually good for learning languages? i tested it briefly and it seemed more like a minigame of constructing sentences
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