I'm doing the same kind of thing for my college classes no matter the subject. But mine is a little different. Instead I do:
1. Feed lecture slides, labs, homework into ChatGPT and have it generate flashcards.
2. Write these flashcards into Anki and study them using Anki.
3. Run through some practice problems
I had originally intended for this system to be used long-term, but I get irresponsible and study the day of the exam. It really depends on the material, but for the most part, it takes around 5–7 hours of studying and preparation to feel completely confident about the exam. Often times, I wake up super early on the exam day to give me some time. This is not ideal of course and is just a product of my bad habits.
It's definitely doable to ace exams with only 2–3 of studying, but usually I need to pad it with another 2–3 hours of preparation like creating high quality flash cards and stuff. I believe most people can adopt this system and perform very well, but at the same time it's a very radical departure from traditional study practices and even then I'm not even using this system in the way it's actually intended (not the day of cramming-style method).
This system is not something I made up, but rather backed from a collective community effort that has produced amazing techniques, guides, research, etc.:
https://thehardway.guide/ - a damn good book teaching about actionable and pragmatic advice about language learning that i've applied to all of my college courses
I never really understood the point of anki outside of vocabulary learning. I would be happy to have it explained to me. Even when learning a language, I found anki to be a bit useless since often times the grammar was as important to learn (e.g., any language with genders and cases). Like I guess I don't see how anki would help me be the scientist I am today, how it might help me learn new topics that I am interested in to pursue new research directions. I am not against anki, I simply don't see how it would benefit me although if you could explain it to me I am all ears.
In particular I liked the section partway* through the article where he talks about using Anki to get up to speed on the AlphaGo paper for an article he was writing for Quanta.
It's great for learning the Ham radio test answers (publicly available), Major System, and NATO Phonetic Alphabet. I did not particularly enjoy Anki when I first tried it for Japanese-learning. I also found using it on my phone (AnkiDroid from F-Droid) worked better since I could grind it out anywhere I was. I never used their sync thing, IIRC it's proprietary. I also had success once using it to study for a technical interview (tech support, not programming, mostly shell commands and important paths).
I stopped using it a couple phones ago when the app seemed to break after trying to copy over my data. I've had several incidences since where I regretted not knowing the Major System well anymore, as I ran into a long number it'd be useful to memorize for a bit. I mostly used public decks I downloaded, though I did make my own for the interview study.
I use a spaced repetition system for learning Russian vocabulary. But tbh I find speaking in Russian and interacting in Russian to be better at learning words because they get associated with memories.
i really like ur take here on introversion especially radical acceptance—never heard of that before. thinking about it, i think there's some nuance to it. i think radical acceptance makes a ton of sense when someone’s preference or behavior is rooted in insecurity or a fundamental fear of rejection since pressing too much can make them feel exposed or judged where otherwise they should be validated. but i think in cases where it's just a neutral preference (like picking a flavor of ice cream), i would guess most people actually enjoy talking about the "why" behind their choices because honestly people love talking about themselves and to see other people interested in them. the important thing here and probably difficult to get down is understanding when someone wants connection and engagement vs. when they just need to feel accepted without explanation.
at the end of the day, i think what makes someone a 2%er for them is whether that person knows when to accept without judgement and when to engage with curiosity.
Corporations have First Amendment rights as ruled by Citizens United v. FEC. Even though corporations don’t have a vote (which is its own can of worms because of their economic power, money = vote), they still enjoy some of the same constitutional protections as individuals do.
No, there's no such reasoning in that decision, which confirmed that speech itself is protected by the first amendment, regardless of who originates it.
And this ruling had little to do with any of that -- the first amendment challenge was that the ban imposed content-based burdens on the speech of the users of TikTok, and the court ruled that it did not. So the ban therefore survived the challenge under intermediate scrutiny.
The domestic vs. foreign ownership element of the ruling only pertained to the evaluation of whether there was a compelling government interest in enacting the ban, not whether the government was exempt from first amendment scrutiny at all.
Anecdote: been learning Mandarin for almost a month now, I've been typing the pinyin of each character and my retention did not improve significantly. So, for the past week, I've been learning how to write it on my phone Chinese drawing keyboard and so far I've learned over 60 new characters all in the past 5-6 days with a surprisingly strong retention rate.
Thank you for this. I want to also reference diataxis [0], a systematic approach to technical documentation authoring, which I think has some good advice on the subject of tutorials.
Comments on HN are expected to have a bit more substance. Most people will have no idea what you’re on about. An alternative:
> This reminded me of Junji Ito’s Uzumaki, a horror manga where a town is cursed by spirals. It can get gruesome. A short anime adaptation is about to come out.
> When tested later on their memories of the event, the person who verbally described the incident will be worse at later remembering or recognizing what actually happened. This is verbal overshadowing. Putting an experience into words can result in failures of memory about that experience, whether it be the memory of a person’s face, the color of an object, or the speed that a car was going.
> The idea that describing something in words can have a detrimental effect on our memory of it makes sense given that we use words to categorize.
I find this a little backwards. Describing something in words is a way to demonstrate our understanding of that thing. The fact that our memory is made worse by engaging in verbal description I feel like indicates that our memory and understanding of the experience was incomplete or incorrect in the first place. This seems completely antithetical to the Feynman technique.
1. Feed lecture slides, labs, homework into ChatGPT and have it generate flashcards.
2. Write these flashcards into Anki and study them using Anki.
3. Run through some practice problems
I had originally intended for this system to be used long-term, but I get irresponsible and study the day of the exam. It really depends on the material, but for the most part, it takes around 5–7 hours of studying and preparation to feel completely confident about the exam. Often times, I wake up super early on the exam day to give me some time. This is not ideal of course and is just a product of my bad habits.
It's definitely doable to ace exams with only 2–3 of studying, but usually I need to pad it with another 2–3 hours of preparation like creating high quality flash cards and stuff. I believe most people can adopt this system and perform very well, but at the same time it's a very radical departure from traditional study practices and even then I'm not even using this system in the way it's actually intended (not the day of cramming-style method).
This system is not something I made up, but rather backed from a collective community effort that has produced amazing techniques, guides, research, etc.:
https://isaak.net/mandarinmethods/ - in depth guide detailing best practices with Anki regarding language learning (THE BEST)
https://cademcniven.com/posts/20211119/ - recommended number of cards per day to study based on some grassroots research
https://github.com/open-spaced-repetition/fsrs4anki - the most modern spaced repetition algorithm which uses machine learning to optimize for each individual's learning capabilities (THE BEST)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Anki/comments/18jvyun/some_posts_an... - meta resource on fsrs
https://www.justinmath.com/individualized-spaced-repetition-... - a reading which i've incorporated into the way i create flash cards pertaining to more problem-solving type of learning as opposed to pure memorization like facts about history
https://thehardway.guide/ - a damn good book teaching about actionable and pragmatic advice about language learning that i've applied to all of my college courses