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    1. Andrej Karpathy‏Verified account @karpathy 5 Feb 2018
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      Getting fairly addicted to Anki as a result of this twitter thread from @michael_nielsen & few posts I've encountered in the past https://www.gwern.net/Spaced-repetition …. Was easier than I expected to learn lots of countries/states/flags. Wish there were more "open-sourced" anki decks out there.https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/957763229454774272 …

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      michael_nielsen @michael_nielsen
      The use of spaced repetition memory systems has changed my life over the past couple of years. Here's a few things I've found helpful:
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    2. Andy Matuschak‏Verified account @andy_matuschak 5 Feb 2018
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      I found myself wishing for good open-source decks initially too, but I’ve found the act of making the deck is pretty important to encoding the knowledge thoroughly, at least for me.

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    3. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen 5 Feb 2018
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      Apart from spaced repetition the other really big win in memory comes from finding more elaborate methods for encoding. Making Anki cards (rather than using another person's deck) is a great prod to elaborate encoding. So making decks seems like a feature, rather than a bug.

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    4. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen 5 Feb 2018
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      One other point, which I almost hesitate to mention - it seems kind of pretentious. But I think of the way you write cards as almost a "theory of understanding". Someone with a good theory will make really good cards that help your future self a lot.

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    5. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen 5 Feb 2018
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      Someone with a less good theory will make much less useful cards. It's worth working hard to improve your card-making process. You really can make vastly more useful cards, at least a small fraction of the time.

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      michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen 5 Feb 2018
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      This is hard to describe in 280 characters, though Andy and I have talked about it quite a bit in person. But one example: I've developed an approach to making cards that helps me understand certain types of mathematics much, much better.

      10:41 AM - 5 Feb 2018
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        2. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen 5 Feb 2018
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          I won't try to describe it here (it'd take a hundred tweets or more), but the end result is (ideally) an understanding of a proof as just a single, very simple idea, which I am completely comfortable with, understand variations of, etc.

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        3. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen 5 Feb 2018
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          A little frustrated here - I'm struggling to convey this briefly. In any case, the point is: it's possible to develop quite elaborate card-making strategies which serve ends going far beyond simple memorization, & start to change how deeply you understand things.

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