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A World at Arms is one of the non-technical recommendations from the list of best textbooks. History seems a good candidate for SR. Presumably the global approach of the book means it wouldn't be too redundant with prior knowledge of WWII history.
A more useful book would be Starting Strength which one would benefit from memorizing to maintain good form in weightlifting. But as other concrete recommendations it probably won't attract the largest audience for your experiment.
Why? Understanding historical events isn't primarily about remembering dates. SR also always you to learn information that more complex than just dates. There's nothing that makes one field like history special.
What is that argument supposed to mean? Reducance isn't an issue. If you already know something you just hit a few times "Very Easy".
I believe that, for a student, history is more about acquiring knowledge than skill. And SRS works better for the former. Where am I wrong?
Are all fields equally approachable with SRS? I am not questioning the spacing effect, but the adequateness of the software.
I agree with your second point, the inconvenience is trivial. I was generalizing from my own preferences.
That's true. You can't learn to play basketball by using Anki. On the other hand in most scientific fields knowledge is important.
Literally speaking, yes. You could learn basketball history, statistics, official rules, and maybe things like classifications of tactics or something via Anki, but not basketball itself.
More generically speaking, maybe. A few days ago I looked into the spacing effect on motor skills question : http://www.gwern.net/Spaced%20repetition#motor-skills I don't have fulltext for all the citations yet, but it looks like there's something there (even if it's not as strong as spacing effect on declarative memory or language).
You can play basketball well if you repeat a dozen core motor skills with high precision 10,000s of times.
It interesting to ask how you best spread out those 10,000 repetitions but I don't think that Anki helps with that goal.
There might be other motor skills were a high number of repetitions aren't central where SRS is more applicable.
If you want to spread out your practices, you're going to have to start somewhere. The Supermemo algorithms are as good a starting point as any unless you're willing to hit the stacks and compare the musty motor skill studies head to head.
Spreading out 20 times of practice is a whole different problem then spreading out 10,000. In addition it's not clear what counts as "correct" answering and forgetting something.
Not inherent to the effect; you can get the spacing or testing effects without providing the right answer or measuring the response.
I think it's very inherent to the supermemo algorithm. Otherwise how does learning without spacing looks like?