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Can spaced repetition be used effectively for things beyond languages? This would have been a godsend had I known about it during college.
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That's exactly what I do. From videos I use losslesscut [1] to isolate the sentences I want to practice on and then turn those into anki flashcards with some custom tools I wrote. [1] https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut
What else do your tools/scripts do? Does losslesscut work with streaming video or only downloaded files?
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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…
I'm curious about those tests, do you have a link? I'm also curious if there's been any attempts at open-source versions of more recent supermemo algorithms.
Some things I could find just now:
Anki vs. SM-8: https://anki.tenderapp.com/discussions/effective-learning/12...
SM-2 vs. SM-17: https://supermemo.guru/wiki/Universal_metric_for_cross-compa...
Anki vs. custom machine learning scheduler: https://old.reddit.com/r/Anki/comments/d0i8uy/improved_algor...
Anki vs SM-17: https://unrelatedwaffle.medium.com/battle-of-the-spaced-repe...
SuperMemo seems to fall behind Anki in the short term (As for open-source implementations, there this: https://github.com/slaypni/SM-15
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Anki is great... however: ... having used it for the last 4 years to try to memorize vocabulary in certain languages (Spanish & French, recently started Chinese), I think it's a base layer ... (much like how Bitcoiners like to talk about BTC's Blockchain). Reasons: 1. I've tired of it. I need a layer that makes me excited to use it. 2. I've found it far-far less useful for learning other things than rote vocabulary m…
It's much more fun to watch native video / read native materials and put in whole sentences that are just on the tip of your foreign language understanding (i + 1 theory from stephen krashen). Instead of just 1 to 1 vocab mapping, look for chinese tv shows that you enjoy and start to slowly build up vocabulary by mining sentences. Then when you do reviews, not only will you remember the vocabulary, you will also reme…
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A key for when tablets will replace paper is when refresh rates get so fast drawing mimics ink on paper. Until the lag is eliminated it won't be replaced.
I haven't used them myself, but I've heard that the Remarkable tablets have pretty good lag.
You know. I've never been interested in these e-ink notebooks where you can write on a digital screen that acts like paper. I've always felt that actual pen and paper were superior. However, if you add some good spaced repetition software to one of these e-notebooks then I think you will have finally surpassed pen and paper for note taking. I'm thinking of something like, you take a note on a page and then save it. A…
A key for when tablets will replace paper is when refresh rates get so fast drawing mimics ink on paper. Until the lag is eliminated it won't be replaced.
The reMarkable (by reports) and Onyx BOOX (by direct experience) both satisfy this requirement.
I picked up the BOOX as an e-book reader, not a note-taking device. It turns out that the note-taking functionality is really, really good.
I still have the objection that notes are stuck in an application-specific interface. Though on balance that's not all bad.
There's also the inherent privacy risk of having an electronic rather than physical record.
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A key for when tablets will replace paper is when refresh rates get so fast drawing mimics ink on paper. Until the lag is eliminated it won't be replaced.
I haven't used them myself, but I've heard that the Remarkable tablets have pretty good lag.
You know. I've never been interested in these e-ink notebooks where you can write on a digital screen that acts like paper. I've always felt that actual pen and paper were superior. However, if you add some good spaced repetition software to one of these e-notebooks then I think you will have finally surpassed pen and paper for note taking. I'm thinking of something like, you take a note on a page and then save it. A…
It's a good idea. I think the problem with being presented the whole page is that we fool ourselves into thinking we know something. I.e recognition feels like remembering. So it might be better to draw the boxes up front, but I like the concept. https://www.remnote.io/ tries to do something like this but with textual notes.
I didn't mean present the entire page, although a link back to the entire page for context would be nice.
Also, being able to remember things by their spacial layout on the page is an advantage, not a flaw. It allows you to employ your spacial and visual memory to help in memorizing concepts and facts.
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> 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…
Nice man. Yes, why not use both immersion and spaced repetition?
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I haven't used them myself, but I've heard that the Remarkable tablets have pretty good lag.
I'm using a remarkable 2 and the lag when writing is almost non-existent. The thing traditional paper has over the e-ink tablet is the ease of shuffling through notes. Sure, I can tag, and organize, and search through notebooks on my tablet, but shuffling through a stack of paper is much faster, without the friction of using a (sometimes clunky) e-ink ui.
Again, I think spaced repetition is a killer feature that could finally distinguish an e-ink tablet from paper. I think this idea has more potential for improving learning than almost all the multi-million dollar learning websites out there. It can systematically take you to savant levels of recollection in any topic. And right now this tool is locked behind some clunky text focused UI. (Yes, latex and pictures exist, but they suck when compared to drawing on a page.)