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Andy Matuschak
@andy_matuschak
It's less efficient than SM2 etc but maybe easier to understand/phsicalize. I feel, though, that most people overrate the problem of optimizing the algorithm and underrate the problem of making SRS desirable, valuable, tractable. Optimization opp'ties are a nice problem to have.
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Andy Matuschak
@andy_matuschak
eg. This morning I was studying service workers and writing some notes on them, and being able to write SRS prompts inline just completely transformed the experience. It feels completely different than writing atomized notes in Anki. This level of q is the high-order bit, I think
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João Eira
@joaoeira
If you are doing clozes as you read, won't you run into a problem of 'over-clozing' things that will get decontextualized as time intervals get larger? Or does including the full note kind of solve that?
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João Eira
@joaoeira
As in, one of the problems of effective card creation is making the question prompt immune to the curse of knowledge problem. Because a paragraph does not exist by itself, clozing things might create situations where prompt no longer elicits the context required to answer it.
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João Eira
@joaoeira
Also, have you done any analysis on the differential effect on retention of q-a pairs and clozes? Think that's underexplored, or at I have not seen anything on it. Whenever I run into my own clozes I feel that I am answering based on pattern recognition rather than recall.
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