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Personal blog · rs.io · on HN as adbgeprogrammingwriting
rs.io is a personal blog at rs.io about programming and writing. Since 2011, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 54 times, most often “Anki, Ten Thousand Cards Later”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on Anki and spaced repetition for memorisation, with guides for study and a list of interesting datasets. HN commenters link the Anki posts for study advice and the dataset list for finding data.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /anki-tips/3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-03-19
- Anki, Ten Thousand Cards Later2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-04-05
- Mathematical theory of why something is interesting2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-04-27
What Hacker News says?
I built an Anki deck to study for the FAA instrument written test and the oral exam portion of the instrument practical test. Tips and best practices: * Effective learning: Twenty rules of formulating knowledge[0] * A list of Anki tips and suggestions that [a medical student] wrote[1] * Anki Guide for Medical Students[2] * How to make high quality Anki cards quickly[3] * Anki Tips: What I Learned Making 10,000 Flash…
Comment linking /anki-tips/
on “To Remember Everything You Learn, Surrender to This Algorithm (2008)”Submitted Interesting Data Sets for Statistics as a story · 216 points
HN discussionI've used it for 8 months, and did not observe any negative side effects in the nature of those you mention. One thing that I would consider somewhat of a disadvantage of an explicit repetition system is that you need to really take care of how you engineer the questions to match the way you would normally encounter the knowledge they refer to in real situations. For example, read the section on "Two-way connections…
Comment linking /2014/04/05/anki-10000-cards-later.html
on “Anki – Powerful, intelligent flashcards”Submitted Why Online Communities Decay Over Time as a story · 158 points
HN discussionI've been using a similar method to learn some German vocabulary for about 8 months now (using Flashcards Deluxe, not Anki, though), and I could specially relate to the "Two-way connections" section of your friend's article. For example, my deck is currently German to English. As an experiment, once I reversed the deck for a while (making it English to German) and suddenly it became much harder. Maybe the solution i…
Comment linking /2014/02/25/why-questions-reveal-structure.html
on “Anki – Powerful, intelligent flashcards”Submitted The Science of Problem Solving as a story · 120 points
HN discussionMy friend and I have been using this for years. My friend took it pretty serious this year: http://rs.io/2014/04/05/anki-10000-cards-later.html It's really useful for courses in college, especially Language, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics for definitions, pronunciations, systems, etc. Math and Computer Science is a bit hard since a lot of that requires practice and it takes time to figure out how to structure those…
Comment linking /2014/04/05/anki-10000-cards-later.html
on “Anki – Powerful, intelligent flashcards”Submitted I Hate My Smartphone as a story · 120 points
HN discussionNeat! I have a similar page I put up at 10k cards. We should be friends http://rs.io/anki-tips/
Comment linking /anki-tips/
on “Spaced Repetition”Submitted Intuition for Simulated Annealing as a story · 67 points
HN discussionSome good resources for beginners: https://mullenmemory.com/ http://artofmemory.com/ You can't just imagine something and remember it forever, combine mnemotechniques with: http://www.retrievalpractice.org/ https://www.supermemo.com/en/articles/20rules http://rs.io/anki-tips/
Comment linking /anki-tips/
on “An ancient memorization strategy might cause lasting changes to the brain”Submitted Hard Books Are Overrated as a story · 38 points
HN discussionTo prepare for the FAA instrument written and oral exam component of the checkride, I built an Anki deck ( https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/2105122272 ) with the following principles in mind, all of which favored cloze cards. * Effective learning: Twenty rules of formulating knowledge https://www.supermemo.com/en/articles/20rules * Anki Guide for Medical Students https://drwillbe.blogspot.com/2011/08/anki-guide-for-m…
Comment linking /anki-tips/
on “Using Anki and Spaced Repetition”Submitted Anki, Ten Thousand Cards Later as a story · 36 points
HN discussionOh--just that I couldn't understand the first chapter in Stepanov fully on first reading, so I need to read it again (and again, and again). The Feynman reference is Well, I asked him, “How can I read it? It’s so hard.” He said, “You start at the beginning and you read as far as you can get, until you are lost. Then you start at the beginning again, and you keep working through until you can understand the whole boo…
Comment linking /feynman-reading-difficult-things/
on “Why Domain Driven Design?”Submitted Why Category Theory Matters as a story · 20 points
HN discussionThis is the site I usually turn to, when I'm on the prowl for interesting datasets: http://rs.io/100-interesting-data-sets-for-statistics/ These datasets will make for some nice additions to this list.
Comment linking /100-interesting-data-sets-for-statistics/
on “Datasets You've Likely Never Seen”Submitted The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Checklists as a story · 15 points
HN discussion+1. I've been experimenting aggressively with different techniques for email capture (e.g. [1]) and, looking at my analytics, the exit-intent popup accounts for 47.27% of all emails. [1]: http://rs.io/behavior-modification-techniques-if-then-rules/
Comment linking /behavior-modification-techniques-if-then-rules/
on “Three months at Y Combinator: what it’s like and how to get in”Submitted C is a Wasteland as a story · 15 points
HN discussion"The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Checklists" ( https://rs.io/unreasonable-effectiveness-of-checklists/ ) comes to mind. When I was younger I would have though the same. Now that I have more humility and less working memory, I think differently.
Comment linking /unreasonable-effectiveness-of-checklists/
on “The Website Specification”Submitted Statistician on a Plane as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Checklists as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Category Theory Matters as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted “The Ask” Is an Entrepreneur’s Core Skill as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mathematical theory of why something is interesting as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creativity, Literature, and Compression as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Stable Marriage Problem as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why not to attend college as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why category theory matters (2014) as a story · 3 points
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