This sounds silly and obvious, but the improvement was very considerable: the two cards became trivial.
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(There's something quite deep about memory in this example, which I don't understand.)
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I use Anki for almost everything.
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Learning places and all kinds of facts about my city, from the best things to order at a particular restaurant to demographic statistics (really) to favourite places in parts of the city I don't visit often.
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Learning APIs.
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Reading papers and books and watching videos. This is especially helpful for building mastery outside your area of expertise. You can (say) read a paper multiple times through, each time just grabbing what is easy, gradually building up an understanding.
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For instance, this is how I read the AlphaGo paper (for my article https://www.quantamagazine.org/is-alphago-really-such-a-big-deal-20160329/ … ).
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I read and reread the paper several times, as well as consulting a lot of adjacent papers, Wikipedia etc.
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I added several hundred Anki cards while doing.
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Replying to @michael_nielsen
Do you often have a large queue of unlearned cards? Am learning a new language (which makes this my default state). I am up to 60m / day to learn ~20 mature cards / day — would be fascinating to extract task difficulty (or brain metrics!) from log db.
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I go through about 100 cards most days, in about 15 minutes, longer if I get behind. Sounds like my cards are a lot simpler than yours.
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