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