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Spaced repetition systems have gotten better

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673 points domenicd | 2 comments | 18 May 25 11:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.611s | source
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TechDebtDevin ◴[18 May 25 15:46 UTC] No.44022205[source]▶
Pro Tip , if you're using LLMs to learn, create an MCP tool for them to insert Anki cards on topics you're discussing in a csv on google drive, then sync that with you anki decks on your phone.

This was a game changer for me and working with LLMS, while I still think they make you dumb, and we essentially use them to offload critical thinking (almost only find myself using them when tired lazy, and just cant), if you must use them use them as a study tool.

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MostlyStable ◴[18 May 25 16:10 UTC] No.44022365[source]▶
I created a python script that checks my anki deck for the cards that I'm scheduled to review the next day and asks an LLM to generate new sentences for the cards, so that every time I see them, I see them in a new context.

I did this because I realized I was hitting an issue where I theoretically "knew" a word (would get it always correct on the card), but wouldn't always recognize it in a novel context.

I'm hoping that having the context be variable when I'm learning it will help fix this issue.

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1. Llamamoe ◴[18 May 25 17:45 UTC] No.44023061[source]▶
That sounds like a really useful project!! Have you considered publishing it?
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2. MostlyStable ◴[18 May 25 22:09 UTC] No.44024669[source]▶
I don't think what I wrote would be very generally useful, other than the basic idea of it. I wrote it with some pretty narrow assumptions about card layout etc that work for my exact deck, and it's not designed to be flexible. It wouldn't be hard to adjust it I don't think, but also it's such a simple script, that once you have gotten to the point of changing it, you aren't much beyond writing it from scratch either.