The essay explains a tonne of use patterns for the personal memory system Anki. It’s a much more in-depth version of my tweet storm:https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/957763229454774272 …
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Great essay. Re "[in HCI] the overwhelming majority of papers seem timid when compared to early work on augmentation." I totally agree. Do you know of communities you think are doing better? I like
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Thanks! Full fledged communities, no. But nascent communities, sure - I find inspiration in lots of groups of artists, musicians, YouTubers, ppl writing “Explorable Explanations”,
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Very interesting and useful read! As you may know, Simon had a lot to say about the relationship between pragmatically tinkering designers and rigorous scientists as well (The Sciences of the Artificial). https://monoskop.org/images/9/9c/Simon_Herbert_A_The_Sciences_of_the_Artificial_3rd_ed.pdf …
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Thanks! Yes, I love that book!
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whatever the technique - Anki, meditation, impressing your partner or whatever - being engaged deeply is the key... speaking from a personal experience

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Yes, though I find Anki functions as something of an emotional prosthetic for me: it helps me care more. But it definitely works better for material I’m invested in; it’s a sort of engagement amplifier.
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I’m a big fan of Anki too! Nice to see your approach.
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Great piece -- when you were memorizing Dickens, what was your card structure? Was the front one sentence, and the back the next sentence in the book?
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No, that would be too complicated (and violate the atomicity principle). It was short phrases used to cue the next short phrase. Very slow without larger chunks.
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