I did 98,000 Anki reviews. Anki is already dead
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I did 98,000 Anki reviews. Anki is already dead
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Re: I did 98,000 Anki reviews. Anki is already dead
#2Always good to see more activity in the language learning space. I wish you luck now that you've moved past Anki.
A piece of feedback: one of the common issues I've found with AI-generated questions & answers based on an article is that they will often hone in on testing values. It looks like incontextlearning.com often suffers from this same issue (over half my comprehension questions were "how many"-style). I can easily answer these types of questions even if I don't know what the content is about.
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Re: I did 98,000 Anki reviews. Anki is already dead
#4Always good to see more activity in the language learning space. I wish you luck now that you've moved past Anki. A piece of feedback: one of the common issues I've found with AI-generated questions & answers based on an article is that they will often hone in on testing values. It looks like incontextlearning.com often suffers from this same issue (over half my comprehension questions were "how many"-style). I can e…
Thanks for the advice! I'll try modifying the prompt a bit and see if I can pull out more engaging questions.
Re: I did 98,000 Anki reviews. Anki is already dead
#5I get the feeling that an LLM wrote this article as well.
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#6It looks like you can’t do much on incontextlearning.com without logging in. It would be good to have more explanation of what it does and maybe a demo before taking that step.
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#7Can we get a non-Google, username and password login option?
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#8The Japanese immersion language learning rabbit hole goes very very deep, and it super interesting.
I'm writing some info about it here because I just don't want it to be lost to the sands of the digital times:
It all started way back when with this guy named Khatzumoto who did his own guerilla academic research, for lack for a better word - and proving it by getting fluent in 18 months. The theories were based in comprehensible input (from Stephen Krashen) and nonstop immersion, which do carry weight and are great ways - if not the only way to learn ANY language. He created AJATT, All Japanese All The Time, and basically created a mini cult that legitimately got people to fluency. It might sound extreme but on the other end I heard of someone who did duolingo (100% slop product btw) for 6 months and didn't know how to say "Thank You" in Japanese. Khatzumoto's ideas were manic, strange, but sometimes truly brilliant. I've never found a blog quite like it ever since - writings that an LLM really can't emulate. The original blog 404'd but it's been revived by a community member here - https://alljapanesealltheti.me/index.html I go back to them every now and then when I want some crazy motivation.
Nobody knows what has happened to Khatzumoto, he basically just dropped off the face of the internet - I wonder if he's doing alright.
Re: I did 98,000 Anki reviews. Anki is already dead
#9> The enemy is the static card. It always has the same front, formatting, and font. After enough reps I would latch on to little cues that are irrelevant to the meaning of the card, meaning I would skip the very important step of thinking deeply about the content. A fairly common occurrence was that a word in the sentence would remind me about the meaning of the sentence, giving away the answer to the target word, which is quite different from piecing together the meaning of the target word in a brand new sentence.
Interestingly, that's the "trick" behind a lot of the seemingly magic skill of geo guessers. The best players have played so much, that they now "see" things that a regular person wouldn't even consider to look for, like the camera quality, what year the car was from, and so they narrow down the possible countries by those aspects, before even looking at the "picture".
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#10Hallucinations in LLMs when learning is dangerous; IF you have some background, you can usually tell with LLMs go off the rails, but It would be unfortunate for you to commit to memory an incorrect fact at such a vulnerable time. It will be difficult to "uncommit it" at that point.