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Systematic Learning Sucks: Why I Don't Use Anki - wrycode.com

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I decided to revive this blog in 2024. What better way to start than correcting my own post from 2021? I was an Anki power user in my college years. I wrote an emacs package to quickly create cards, and a blog post about the best Anki resources. One day I read a blog post called Janki Method and decided to start every programming journey by Ankifying the textbook. Anki really shines in language classes. It’s also popular with med students who have to memorize anatomy. But these are artificial situations where you know the exact nature and scope of the facts to memorize ahead of time. Real life is nothing like that. And, in practice, Ankifying textbooks was a terrible way to teach myself programming. Don’t get me wrong, if you must memorize a known set of atomic facts, I still think SRS is one of the best tools. Michael Nielsen cites it being more efficient than conventional flash cards by a factor of 20. He and Gwern remark on the long term decay of daily review time: you can maintain

Systematic Learning Sucks: Why I Don't Use Anki - wrycode.com Systematic Learning Sucks: Why I Don't Use Anki Home About Code ↑Top↑ April 2024 Why I'm writing this post I decided to revive this blog in 2024. What better way to start than correcting my own post from 2021? Anki in academia I was an Anki power user in my college years. I wrote an emacs package to quickly create cards, and a blog post about the best Anki resources. One day I read a blog post called Janki Method and decided to start every programming journey by Ankifying the textbook. Anki really shines in language classes. It's al

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