Comment author: rhollerith_dot_com 11 January 2011 05:08:00AM *  1 point [-]

Anki decks can be exported into . . . tab-delimited text files.

If someone were to post a link to Divia's Guide to Words as tab-delimited text, I would look through it.

Comment author: divia 11 January 2011 05:32:46AM 2 points [-]

http://divia.posterous.com/less-wrong-sequences-as-tab-delimited-text-fi

Spaced Repetition Database for A Human's Guide to Words

34 divia 10 January 2011 12:21AM

Followup to: Spaced Repetition Database for Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions

I've updated my Anki database for the Less Wrong Sequences to include cards from A Human's Guide to Words. I've been trying to put less information on each card, and I relied on cloze deletion more for the newer ones.  Feedback is much appreciated. You can download them by opening up Anki, going to Download > Shared Deck and searching for Less Wrong Sequences.

I probably erred on the side of making way too many cards, but it seemed really important to me to internalize this stuff, since I think it has quite a lot of practical value. I can tell learning this deck has improved the quality of my thinking and my conversations with people because I'm better at noticing when I'm making one of the 37 mistakes and changing my course. I hope other people find it useful too!

Comments (34)
Comment author: AnnaSalamon 15 September 2010 04:29:53PM 3 points [-]

I wish I could upvote this comment an extra time. Atul Gawande's article is great, and applying it to personal life seems highly worth experimenting with. I'd love to hear results from personal experiments with checklists.

Comment author: divia 15 September 2010 08:24:06PM 2 points [-]

I've used spaced repetition to memorize checklists for things for me to do in certain situations and found it to be quite useful. Some of my thinking on this was inspired by The Checklist Manifesto, which I read recently. I'm still figuring out how to make my system work better and have it cover more situations, but an example of one checklist that I've gotten a bit of mileage out of is the one I've made for accessing my inner anticipation controller.

Comment author: gwern 14 July 2010 09:14:29AM 0 points [-]

Incidentally, any chance of a copyedit? I noticed that there were quite a few typos.

Comment author: divia 15 July 2010 02:32:30PM 0 points [-]

Yeah, I've changed a few that I've noticed myself since I posted them, but if you want to email me with other changes I'd love that.

Comment author: gwern 28 June 2010 01:43:45PM 0 points [-]

Mnemosyne's XML is nicer (and I'm surprised Anki can't export as XML, it used to play nice with Mnemosyne) since it lets one specify metadata like grades, hardness, and category. But tab-delimited would work, yes.

Comment author: divia 28 June 2010 04:19:54PM 1 point [-]

http://divia.posterous.com/my-less-wrong-cards-as-a-tab-delimited-text-f

Comment author: gwern 27 June 2010 06:21:55PM 0 points [-]

IIRC, Anki is supposed to be able to export in Mnemosyne's .xml format. I'd like to take a look myself, and if it's a good set of cards, I could also upload it to the Mnemosyne card collection as well.

Comment author: divia 28 June 2010 03:30:20AM 0 points [-]

I don't see a way to export to xml, but if you want a tab delimited text file I could send you that. Interested?

Comment author: xamdam 25 June 2010 02:38:30PM 2 points [-]

This is great; would it be possible to link back to the sequence in question from the Flashcard itself?

Comment author: divia 26 June 2010 03:51:40PM *  3 points [-]

Done! I uploaded a new version with links to the posts.

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 26 June 2010 04:27:38AM 1 point [-]

I had read all the sequences before, but I have found that since I've started using the cards I've noticed the concepts coming up in my life more often

Maybe the cards could be made even more effective if they asked you to come up with an application on the spot?

Comment author: divia 26 June 2010 05:49:28AM 1 point [-]

Hmm. I'm interested, but I'm not exactly sure what you're envisioning. Could you elaborate? I have another deck with SAT grammar (because I'm an SAT tutor) and I have cards that ask me to come up with example sentences for common grammar mistakes. I have specific answers on the back of the cards, but I'll mark them correct if I come up with anything that correctly demonstrates the principle. So maybe something analogous to that?

Comment author: humpolec 25 June 2010 07:06:47AM 5 points [-]

I'm happy to see something about Anki here, but how are Sequences supposed to be SRS-able in any way? "Learning" them involves understanding, not memorization of text / facts.

Or is that the joke ("mysterious answers") and I failed to see it?

Comment author: divia 26 June 2010 05:46:06AM *  5 points [-]

I think your concern is a valid one, but that there's also a solution. I think reviewing the sequences with the mindset of trying to guess a password would merely reinforce the misguided idea of verbal behavior having inherent truth value. And that's why I wouldn't even really use the word "memorization" to describe what I'm doing.

I think the way to "learn" the sequences is to practice applying the concepts all the time, which is more easily accomplished if you're primed to have them pop into your mind at the right moment. And my experience has been that SRS has helped enable that for me.

Comment author: wedrifid 25 June 2010 08:31:20AM 0 points [-]

Hmm... Does Anki allow me to review all of my decks of study material simultaneously? Specifically opening up an individual topic of study defeats at least half of the purpose that I use spaced repetition for!

Comment author: divia 26 June 2010 05:39:26AM 1 point [-]

It doesn't allow you to review all your decks simultaneously, but you can merge decks by importing one deck into another. http://ichi2.net/anki/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#How_can_I_merge_or_split_decks.3F

View more: Prev | Next

Powered by Reddit Powered by Reddit