Principles

• Continually add flashcards from things you find hard or leave scars
  • Collectors attitude
  • harvest flashcards
• Opting for learnings with long-term earnings
  • Picky about topics
  • Topics for life
  • long-lived and not short-lived
  • focus on fundamentals
  • lindy-effect
• Drawing on problems you face through some real world use-case
  • focus on actually doing things
  • don't create cards for "just in case" topics
• Executing all code before adding to your Anki load
  • protects you from adding crap
  • understands what you are adding
• Referencing sources (as you would in academic courses)
• Solidifying and regularly tidying - via elision and qualifying

Some Problems

• Pattern matching
  • our brains start to shortcut the inquiry
  • we only remember the answer if it followes the learned question. we learn the gestalt of the question-answer pair
  • more variability woud be necessary something that humans provide automatically
• Too abstract
  • when we encounter a real problem we might not recognize what knowledge i should use or how to adapt it to that medium
• Static depth
  • its only maintaining memory but now grow depth over time
• Disconnected
  • my authentic practice might look for something different unless we are very carefull we won't see how they might be connected

Advantages

• chunking
  • through familiarity you don't have to deduce everything from concepts.first-principle
    • mind can rely on pre-cached knowledge
    • applies deductive power to these higher level "chunks"
  • performance
    • depends on
      • intelligence depends on genetics (as far as we know)
      • pre-existing knowledge
    • focusing on inceasing possibilities for chunking is equivalent to higher IQ (in that specific field)
• Fluency
• Promotes consistency
  • Backpressure for getting reviews done

Tools

• Thought Saver
• Implementation of a personal mnemonic medium from a set of markdown files
• pkg.anki
• RemNote - The all-in-one tool for thinking and learning.
• GitHub - andymatuschak/orbit: Experimental spaced repetition platform for exploring ideas in memory augmentation and programmable attention
• Execute Program

Lookup

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Pimsleur
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition
• How to Learn to Code I: Use SRS and Anki
• Spaced repetition - supermemo.guru
• Active Recall and Spaced Repetition: How I Study More Efficiently As A Medical Student
• Studies
  • https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1111/j.1745-6916.2006.00012.x?icid=int.sj-challenge-page.similar-articles.2&
  • https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1745691616645770?icid=int.sj-abstract.similar-articles.3
  • https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2372732215624708
  • https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2007-02165-006
• Effective learning: Twenty rules of formulating knowledge - SuperMemo
• Spaced Repetition for Efficient Learning
• “How to Remember Anything Forever-ish”.
• Augmenting Long-term Memory
• Spaced repetition mechanics create a sense of effortlessness | Spaced everything]
• Anki Flashcard 13 Best Practices | How to Create Good Cards
• Ep. #407: Transhumanism Lite: Using Urbit and Spaced Repetition to Hack Your Brain, Not Replace It
• How to write good prompts

Flashcards

Q. What is the central mechanism of change when using spaced repetition learning tasks? A. Retrieval practice.

Q. What is the key element that makes retrieval practice a more effective learning method than simply rereading material? A. The act of retrieving information from memory strengthens memories more effectively than simply being reminded of it.

Q. What is the testing effect? A. The learning produced by retrieval practice is called the "testing effect." This means testing your knowledge through retrieval practice leads to learning.

Q. What are the five key properties of effective retrieval practice prompts? A. Focused, precise, consistent, tractable, and effortful.

Q. What can make it difficult to write tightly-scoped questions? A. It can be difficult to break down knowledge into its discrete components.

Q. What does the "more than you think" rule of thumb suggest about the number of prompts to write? A. Write more prompts than you think is necessary. Breaking down information into smaller chunks with more prompts makes learning easier.

Q. While prompts are cheap, what is one reason you shouldn't write prompts about material you already know well? A. Prompts have an emotional cost, and no one wants to spend time reviewing boring material they already know.

Q. How can elaborative encoding help with recall? A. Connecting new information to existing memories through cues, associations, or imagery can make it easier to remember.

Q. What are the three types of prompts that are consistently helpful when working with open lists? A. Prompts that link each tagged item to the tag. Prompts that focus on the tag itself and patterns among instances. Prompts that ask for examples of the tag.

Q. What kind of prompts can extend the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon to keep ideas salient over time? A. Salience prompts.

Q. What is a helpful way to write salience prompts that can influence behavior or thoughts? A. Phrase them around contexts where those ideas might be meaningful in your life.

Q. What is a useful way to avoid prompts that rely on rote memorization or pattern matching? A. Avoid binary (yes/no or this/that) prompts and rephrase them as more open-ended questions.

Q. How can you diagnose problems with prompts you have written? A. Look for prompts that cause you to feel frustrated or confused during review sessions and revise or delete them accordingly.

Q. What is the most important thing to optimize when developing spaced repetition prompts? A. The emotional connection you have to the prompts you are reviewing. If you don't care about the material, revise or delete the prompts.

Q. What is the best way to begin using spaced repetition systems? A. Use the systems to help you learn information related to your creative work or other activities that matter to you.