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Any chance you've studied either Spanish or Russian and have decks to share? I've never fully gotten started with Anki, but would love to get back into it to use it to expand my vocab with full sentences. I'll also be checking online now that you've spurred my curiosity, just curious if you have ones that you like too.
Keep in mind, the full value from Anki really comes from creating your own decks rather than using preconfigured ones.
To remember everything you learn, surrender to this algorithm (2008)
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Re: To remember everything you learn, surrender to this algorithm (2008)
#42Since the early 90s I've used a piano-practice scheme that provides spaced repetition. It greatly reduces the time needed to either (1) learn or (2) memorize pieces. I always feel compelled to cite this poem: You can get a great deal from rehearsal If it just has the proper dispersal You would just be an ass To do it en masse Your remembering would turn out much worsal.
Re: To remember everything you learn, surrender to this algorithm (2008)
#43Free app based on the same idea: https://apps.ankiweb.net/ https://github.com/ankitects/anki-manual/
The consensus within the Anki community seems to be that yes, the SuperMemo scheduling algorithm (SM-17) is a bit better than Anki's (SM-2 variant), but not by enough to matter, so you shouldn't worry about it. But when you look into tests people have done to see how much better it is exactly, it's around 30% more efficient. I still use Anki and am grateful for its existence, but this is a huge difference in efficien…
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I've used Anki every day for almost a year now for Spanish vocabulary. My deck has over 4000 cards. Most are one-to-one translations of nouns and verbs, but some are phrases and Spanish idioms. To your first point, it has basically become a habit for me. The key is to really commit to it for the first several weeks and establish the habit, then you won't feel tired of it as reviewing your cards daily becomes somethin…
> I believe Anki memorization + regular conversational practice is second only to full immersion as the best learning strategy. I'd extend this: Memory + Synthesis = Useful learning strategy Blindly learning facts with no intent to synthesize them into something else will help you win at trivia contests. Learning to integrate those facts into something else (like conversation, with languages) is how you effectively l…
Re: To remember everything you learn, surrender to this algorithm (2008)
#45One past thread: To Remember Everything You Learn, Surrender to This Algorithm (2008) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17706776 - Aug 2018 (208 comments)
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#46Man refines memory techniques; dissapears beneath event-horizon of information density.
Re: To remember everything you learn, surrender to this algorithm (2008)
#47This would have been a godsend had I known about it during college.
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#48Since the early 90s I've used a piano-practice scheme that provides spaced repetition. It greatly reduces the time needed to either (1) learn or (2) memorize pieces. I always feel compelled to cite this poem: You can get a great deal from rehearsal If it just has the proper dispersal You would just be an ass To do it en masse Your remembering would turn out much worsal.
I play piano and it takes me forever to memorize pieces. Could you describe the details of your scheme?
The second principle is the spaced repetition. That works for learning the muscle memory as well as the memorization, but let's just address memorization.
First I divide a piece into arbitrary sections, often pages but in information-dense music you've got to go a couple lines at a time. I do not usually divide at a sensible musical stopping point, because we remember the starts and ends of what we do much better than the middles. Choosing weird places to start and end helps get some of those middles into our heads; plus it's really easy to mentally track what you've done if it's at a page or line boundary.
Then, with sections A through, say, D, I'll go in roughly this order, with "A" meaning I play all notes in section A in the proper sequence, even if I have to wait a few seconds sometimes to recall what happens next.
A A A; B B B A A; C C C B B A; D D D C C B A; D D C B; D C; D
...adjusting sometimes to accommodate the different information densities of the different sections. After this you'll need some mental downtime because it sucks a lot out of you to recall so much. Later you can do sections E through H, etc.
By the time you've done that, you're halfway to your goal. You can then start increasing the tempo toward performance quality by responsible metronome practice. I like to do
(1) the above routine out of tempo, waiting as long as necessary before notes
(2) the above routine at any tempo with metronome, doesn't matter how ridiculously slow
(3) increasing the tempo gradually from there, not deviating from the "note-perfect" requirement
Re: To remember everything you learn, surrender to this algorithm (2008)
#49Augmenting Long Term Memory http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html
Re: To remember everything you learn, surrender to this algorithm (2008)
#50Can spaced repetition be used effectively for things beyond languages? This would have been a godsend had I known about it during college.
To give some examples, it's used heavily in US med schools, and I achieved great academic results using it to study CS in university.