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senrigan.io
Personal blog · senrigan.io/blogproductivityaiprogramming
senrigan.io is a personal blog at senrigan.io about productivity, ai and programming. Since 2019, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Strategies, Tips, and Tricks for Anki”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link these posts on memorization, spaced repetition and Anki study strategies, including a guide to using Anki and a piece on leveraging a poor memory for 10x gains.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /blog/everything-i-know-strategies-tips-and-tricks-for-spaced-repetition-anki/3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-05-26
- Strategies, Tips, and Tricks for Anki2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-04-30
- /blog/chasing-10x-leveraging-a-poor-memory-in-software-engineering/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-09-26
- Lessons Learned from Building an AI Writing App2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-10-11
What Hacker News says?
https://senrigan.io/blog/everything-i-know-strategies-tips-a... A bit of a self-post, but I've compiled a list of Anki tips I've learned and found. My deck is about 14,000 cards over the last few years - so I've learned a bit from my own mistakes :)
Comment linking /blog/everything-i-know-strategies-tips-and-tricks-for-spaced-repetition-anki/
on “Using Anki to remember what you read”Submitted Strategies, Tips, and Tricks for Anki as a story · 337 points
HN discussionGiven comments about using memorization for code etc, wanted to share this other article about how that can be incredibly effective: https://senrigan.io/blog/chasing-10x-leveraging-a-poor-memor...
Comment linking /blog/chasing-10x-leveraging-a-poor-memory-in-software-engineering/
on “Learning Is Remembering”Submitted Leveraging A Poor Memory In Engineering as a story · 260 points
HN discussionIf anyone's interested, I've compiled a lot of strategies and tips around spaced repetition and Anki that I've learned over five years and ~11k cards. https://senrigan.io/blog/everything-i-know-strategies-tips-a...
Comment linking /blog/everything-i-know-strategies-tips-and-tricks-for-spaced-repetition-anki
on “Spaced Repetition”Submitted Lessons Learned from Building an AI Writing App as a story · 137 points
HN discussionHow large is your deck? I'm at 14k (which is considered a reasonable size). I definitely do average about 30 minutes + a day, but the productivity at work has helped me much more. I've thought about this quite a bit and written about strategies and tips here: https://senrigan.io/blog/everything-i-know-strategies-tips-a... A large part is also now using the proper visualization techniques (ie. using intensive memorie…
Comment linking /blog/everything-i-know-strategies-tips-and-tricks-for-spaced-repetition-anki/
on “Show HN: MDAnki – convert Markdown to Anki cards”Submitted Lessons Learned from Building an AI (GPT2) App as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSome interesting ideas, but why are question and answer cards better than Cloze cards? A recent blog post ( https://senrigan.io/blog/everything-i-know-strategies-tips-a... , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19831526 ) suggested Clozes were better. Neither one provided much reason to believe what they said.
Comment linking /blog/everything-i-know-strategies-tips-and-tricks-for-spaced-repetition-anki/
on “Using Anki and Spaced Repetition”Submitted Takeaways from OpenAI Five (2019) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIf anyone's interested - I've written a guide to Anki and spaced repetition. I've used it for about 5-6 years and my deck is about 12,000+ cards. Much of it is based in software engineering. https://senrigan.io/blog/everything-i-know-strategies-tips-a...
Comment linking /blog/everything-i-know-strategies-tips-and-tricks-for-spaced-repetition-anki/
on “Memorizing a programming language using spaced repetition software (2013)”Submitted Takeaways from OpenAI Five at the International 2019 (Dota 2) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI just published my first blog piece about memory and engineering! It took me a few years to get the systems in place, but I came out as a much better engineer. Spaced repetition is my savior. https://senrigan.io/blog/chasing-10x-leveraging-a-poor-memor...
Comment linking /blog/chasing-10x-leveraging-a-poor-memory-in-software-engineering
on “Ask HN: Can't seem to remember basic things, should I give up on computing?”Submitted The Hard Thing About Content Marketing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI found your article on how to use Anki. https://senrigan.io/blog/everything-i-know-strategies-tips-a... I'm likely not going to use Anki but many of the tips and strategies in your article resonated with me. Thanks!
Comment linking /blog/everything-i-know-strategies-tips-and-tricks-for-spaced-repetition-anki/
on “Ask HN: What are some free software tools you want?”Submitted Despair to Joy: When an Engineer Tries Content Marketing (Analytics) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionShort tl;dr of my knowledge: - Nothing can really significantly improve your raw baseline memory ability - Familiarity with a domain improves your brain's ability to compress the information and memorize more/faster in short-term memory, but not for longer. - Memorization strategies are powerful. Spaced repetition[1] is probably the most powerful tool known to mankind, since it works around our natural propensity to…
Comment linking /blog/chasing-10x-leveraging-a-poor-memory-in-software-engineering/
on “Ask HN: How can I improve my terrible memory?”Submitted Everything I Know: A Guide of Strategies, Tips, and Tricks for Anki as a story · 1 points
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