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1/ SRS rule 11 of 20 COMBAT INTERFERENCE Known as memory interference, happens when learning similar things & we confuse them. For example when learning a language, two words that sound the same confuse you about their meaning, and so you avoid using them.
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1/ Age has its benefits. I remember reading this article in 2001. "20 Rules of formulating knowledge" by Dr. Piotr Wozniak, developer of @supermemo (probably the worst named apps on the planet). Dr. Wozniak is brilliant when it comes to SRS. super-memory.com/articles/20rul
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Andrew Kirby
@ajkirby01
Speaking as someone with 12k+ cards, can I suggest the 20 rules are not the full answer? They are good for Wozniak’s original goals (word pairs, remembering stats and isolated facts). Real world knowledge, unlike quizzing, is not so atomic.
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Andrew Kirby
@ajkirby01
Here are some problems that I wish clever ppl like you and
@andy_matuschak
would think about. With SRS you never know what you know. I might have 20 cards on wasps, but without retrieval cue they are not accessible. I can answer precise question, but not “tell me about wasps”.
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Andrew Kirby
@ajkirby01
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@andy_matuschak
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@RoamHacker
Yes, I find that after 6 months cards are inevitably out of context, unless I reinvest them with context using daisy-chaining or meta-cards, or meta-routines, where apart from answering I also run a keyword search in Anki to see other instances. Or ask “what does this mean?”
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