billswift comments on Knowledge ready for Ankification - Less Wrong

14 Post author: lukeprog 02 February 2012 06:58PM

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Comment author: billswift 02 February 2012 09:47:20PM 12 points [-]

You don't learn things from flash cards, you fix things you have already learned into your memory. And memorizing the formulas encoding theorems is definitely helpful.

Comment author: amcknight 14 February 2012 08:37:27PM 0 points [-]

Maybe for math, but I learned the capital and location of every country using Anki cards.