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What (not necessarily LW-related) things do people find useful to Anki? (Or have Ankied but they turned out not to be useful, etc.)
Some things I have:
the NATO phonetic alphabet
mass of Earth/Moon/Sun, radius of Earth/Moon
log_2 of 1.25, 1.5 and 1.75, and log_10 of 2 through 9
The 68-95-99.7 rule
Some things that I noticed I had to keep looking up: which is which between SQL left and right joins; the argument order to python's
datetime.datetime.strptimefunction; the spellings of irrelevant and separateI think only the latter group have had any use worth speaking of so far, though the third and fourth are things that I have more than once wanted to know and not known. The first two may just be almost-useless (though I like knowing them, so not necessarily worthless).
Things I kind of want to remember but suspect they wouldn't be worth it include other alphabets, and locations of countries/US states/UK counties/London underground stops (the aggregate may be useful, but there's an awful lot of cards there).
CFA exam: There are many dry facts to be learnt.
Driving Theory Test: What different roadsigns mean and so on.
Sports teams: I don't care about sports but it's handy to be able to understand colleagues' conversations.
Genocides: Because it is sad nobody even remembers most of them.
Latin phrases: A part of my education I missed.
The Lord's Prayer: Because going to hell is a bad idea.
Facts from books I have read: Because otherwise I'd just forget them in a year.
Small exponents: e.g. 6^3.