Kelamir

As a novice at self-hosting, I previously attempted to use it, but got stuck as I didn't understand MySQL, and learning it just for Gitea was too much. However, I've had some progress with with another database recently, so I would like to give Gitea another try soon.

What's the singularity?

Etymology of Anki is the Japanese word which means memorization :)

As the other responder said, don't use Anki for memorization, only for reviewing what you already remember. I recommend using mnemonics for memorizing words. For katakana hiragana, refer to https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/learn-hiragana/

As an example, if you're learning a langauge and studying vocab, you could discard any cards that have over 90 days interval. After all, you're going to meet that word while reading a book or watching something in the target language in the next 90 days, and if not - you shouldn't have memorized that word anyway.

Could you explain why that might not be a good thing to do, siva7?

In what way is Anki less developer friendly? They participated in Google Summer of Code last year!

People could stop using it, because as opposed to Anki, Duolingo is far from real language learning. At least I tried it a couple of years ago and that was my experience.

Let's be honest, Duolingo is a joke in comparison to anything serious like Anki. I agree that Anki alone doesn't cover it. One has to immerse in the target language to make progress. Anki is only there to speed up the process.

But does it have as many addons and decks? https://ankiweb.net/shared/addons/ https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks/german

There's a number of Anki alternatives such as https://mnemosyne-proj.org/, but Anki has an active collaborative community, as opposed to most of alternatives, as far as I know.

> I guess difficult part would be to detect the fact which is worth to be added as a card.

The time to memorize something is supposed to outweight the time you'd need to look it up. Say the target is five minutes - in that case, it's important to follow the Pareto rule as well, and to discard any cards that take you more than that to memorize in total, including the time you recall them. In practice, it means discarding over 20% of cards if possible, to learn 80% that are easy to remember.

They don't take a fee from what I read about it.

> https://docs.github.com/en/sponsors/sponsoring-open-source-c...

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> If I just ask ChatGPT, I get the answer faster, but I also forget faster. It's not learning.

I agree. Its necessary to put in the effort to internalize knowledge, as well as to recall once in a while. It does seem important to internalize _some_ knowledge.

On one hand, considering our current understanding, one could say that that's a good analogy for our brain; on the other, it reminds me of the fact that people in the past used to think that their thinking was akin to the work of a steam engine. A number of expressions in English language refer to the fact, such as "cool off".

I don't understand this topic well, but given premise that GPT3 and ChatGPT are different only that ChatGPT includes RLHF(Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback), and LLaMA 7b is comparable to GPT3 on a number of metrics, it would follow that if we were to improve LLaMA 7b with RLHF, the 7b model would be similar to ChatGPT. Is that correct?

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Getting this message.

I remember around August 8, 2022, YouTube added support for automatic Ukrainian subtitles.

The characters here are processed with Stable Diffusion. This is an impressive progress in the field of video generation with help of AI, considering how consistent the generated characters look like across frames, in my opinion.

Also here is another video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9LX9HSQkWo "Did We Just Change Animation Forever?" where they demonstrated how it came to be.

I've noticed this https://github.com/open-spaced-repetition/fsrs4anki set of modifications for the Anki algorithm is popular in the Anki Discord. Might be of interest to those exploring the code.

It's relieving to hear that. Thanks, leandot!

Thank you, vertis :)

I think it's not proper of me to add, but I'll reach out for help once more, feeling encouraged: I'd like to find some remote work. I have the following skills, among others:

- I am good at language learning, could teach anyone efficient techniques in the field, as, apart from my native Ukrainian and Russian, I am self-taught at English, German, and a bit higher than beginner Japanese. Not only that, but I am also good at learning in general, helping out people in Discord for 2 years in the Anki community.

- I am a bit higher than beginner at programming. I can manage some simple programs, such as a GUI that adds tasks to SQLite documents and kills background processes if any tasks unfinished.

- I'm good at relationships with people, having worked in customer support, and I've read a couple of books on the subject. I manage a Discord community, if that is saying anything.

If you got any advice, or would like to hire me, email is in profile, or write here :) It's frustratingly hard to find any work - I don't have certificates, nor work experience in the relevant fields. I am also outside a city, so there are few local jobs.

Sorry if this is improper(plugging my job seeking in a joyful thread like this one). I am trying to survive and feed my family.

Thank you too! With the war in my country, we're barely meeting ends, and couldn't prepare for Christmas. I wasn't sure about asking for help, but we've been struggling for a while, and even the holidays weren't looking to be any cheer for us. Although I doubted that we deserved it - there are many people who have it much worse, forced out of their houses, - I still reached out. I don't know if it's right of me to do so, but I surely am glad to see my family having better holidays.

I feel depressed about life, following news, and the world feels ever more grim. Just two days ago I found out that a developer of one of my favorite games "Stalker Clear Sky", died in Bakhmut, fighting on the front lines... And there are suicide drones and rockets flying by my location occasionally. We have regular electricity shutdowns.

But this helps. We've bought Christmas presents for my brother, got food to last the days, and we'll have a good celebration for New Year, what with a cake, meat and other foods of value. It's a kindness that makes me feel better about the world and people out there.

Thanks :))

This won't be an understatement to say that atdrummond, who posted this, make Christmas for me and my family possible. If you need help, do not hesitate to reach out!

I'm really thankful for their help. It's a joy to see there are kind people like this.

11th edition is already out. The link is to 10th.

There is an important thing to note: Loci is for memorization. Spaced repetition is for retaining knowledge you already memorized. What you memorize with Loki will be forgotten, no matter how good the method is. And spaced repetition alone won't do much to help you memorize. Thus, look at it this way: you can use mnemonics, such as Loki, to memorize certain information, and spaced repetition, say Anki, to retain that knowledge.

It's fairly good. I link to it for newcomers, and for people looking for a more advanced explanation I link https://gwern.net/spaced-repetition

An alternative to randomness is handicap. For example, Go game has ranks and based on them either you or your opponent get a handicap. Equal ranked players don't use handicap. It is counted that a stone of handicap is worth ~6.5 points, and that is what's used in handicap - one player gets additional stones placed at the beginning of a match. The system is aiming to provide you with 50% win/lose percentage, and every match to feel equal.

I love IVAN due to its difficulty(spend hours building character, get killed by invisible landmine) and polish(got a banana? Make a banana sword!). The little carcastic plot is fun as well.

Upvoting for Battle of Wesnoth. It's a great game and feels rewarding to succeed at. It's got a great ecosystem of addons, such as user submitted stories that you play along, so there's a plenty of content to explore.