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david_allisonon YouTube asks channel owner to verify phone, permanently overwrites personal info

What's the point of code quality if you rewrite everything every 3 years?

david_allisonon Finding Flow: Escaping digital distractions through deep work and slow living

Three Treasures (in Taoism)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Treasures_(Taoism)#Tao_T...

david_allisonon Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website

AFAIK, that referred to a DDOS by LulzSec, rather than a hack

david_allisonon Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead

It's even easier to give people a refund when it's open source

david_allisonon Show HN: Ricotta – Language Learning to Replace Anki

In-case you haven't updated: FSRS 5.0 was released in Anki 24.11

david_allisonon It's unlikely that there will be any further releases of mt32-pi

> I don’t know what to do about how toxicity has become so normalised in online spaces that people don’t even bother to flag it.

You find a new moderator who won't stand for it. They start escalating moderation action, and the wider moderation team follows their example

If you're at the point where your community is so toxic that you can't find a moderator... you need a ban wave. Good luck

david_allisonon I spent five years building a webapp and got my first $1 (2022)

And yet it still hurts significantly less that Patreon

david_allisonon Government planned it 7 years, beavers built a dam in 2 days and saved $1M

Any reliable sources on this?

david_allisonon Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall (2022)

Much appreciated, thank you!

Still got a long way to go for me to be happy, but we make great progress every year

https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/ankidroid-2024-roundup-2-20-1-c...

david_allisonon Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall (2022)

> I wish to see a FOSS incremental reading application in the very least, such an underrated concept.

Be the change you wish to see in the world

david_allisonon Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall (2022)

We have a reasonable source for 70%[0].

There are a number of anti-Anki users (and to be honest, I don't blame them: there's 30k+ cards that they should learn in the 'meta' decks, and our onboarding is lacking). They've got an abusive workload.

The longer I'm US med-adjacent, the more jaded I become. There's continuing score creep, and this is due to the bar being raised[1], in order to maintain a failure rate.

I believe there's systematic academic misconduct due to the pressure to publish. The AVERAGE successfully matched neurosurgery resident has 37.4 research items (papers/presentations/abstracts)[2].

[0] https://www.cureus.com/articles/70371-an-analysis-of-anki-us...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gKKAZ5aO8E [mean score in 2022-3 was 248. This was a 99th percentile score in 1993-4. Mean student in 1993-4 would no longer meet the passing score, exams are not getting easier]

[2] https://medschoolinsiders.com/medical-student/how-many-publi...

david_allisonon Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall (2022)

Interesting! Thanks for the insights. Do you happen to have the link to hand so I can delve into it, rather than refer to it anecdotally?

david_allisonon Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall (2022)

It's fine for MIT work.

The Anki database format is still pretty opaque, despite a few efforts over the years, and it would be great to open some of this this up to allow apps to export apkgs

It doesn't help that our wiki is noindexed by GitHub: https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/wiki/Database-Stru...

david_allisonon Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall (2022)

Hey stranger :D

david_allisonon Some flag emojis aren’t working on Chrome on Windows

https://www.flagsarenotlanguages.com/blog/why-flags-do-not-r...

david_allisonon Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall (2022)

On the Anki side: if you document it, I'll answer questions.

david_allisonon Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall (2022)

There was a HN post a few months ago, [sadly I can't find it] which correlated healthy sleep with faster card answering times in Anki.

I haven't used Supermemo, but believe it has fairly strong sleep tracking capabilities.

I've dabbled about doing the same in AnkiDroid. We could pull data from Android Health, and do something interesting with it, but we've got hundreds of other things to do, Google will probably pull our app from the Play Store if we request health data, and it at the moment it's a little out-of-scope and would be better for an addon using our API

david_allisonon Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall (2022)

> Anki’s Flexable Spaced Repetition (FSRS)

Sorry to nitpick: Free Spaced Repetition Scheduler

https://github.com/open-spaced-repetition/

david_allisonon Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall (2022)

> The redundant nature of mass scale internet content operates on spaced repetition I think

Not really. Depends on the definition of spaced repetition, but you typically want increasing intervals (normally exponentially) for it to be effective.

See 9.1: https://pcl.sitehost.iu.edu/rgoldsto/courses/dunloskyimprovi... [PDF]

david_allisonon Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall (2022)

Off the top of my head: John Carmack and Derek Sivers are Anki users.

I've met a ton of brilliant people at Olympiads who use Anki, and you'll find heavy usage from people who rank #1 in highly competitive exams (JEE Advanced, Cambridge Medicine etc...). I graduated top of my class, and I attribute this to consistent Anki usage

But, of course: there's a subset of truly incredible people who don't need it. I've met some people at 20+ languages, no Anki

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Disclaimer: AnkiDroid maintainer. Did a bit of work on a new website today, so stats are top of mind.

david_allisonon Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall (2022)

SuperMemo 19 (2024 - Desktop/Windows) has incremental reading support

https://super-memory.com/help/read.htm

Disclaimer: AnkiDroid maintainer

david_allisonon Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall (2022)

The site's a great rabbit hole to go down for a few days. Woz is the father of digital spaced repetition.

Be aware that it's not peer reviewed, and some of the findings take a lot of experimentation if you want to dive deep and reproduce them.

My understanding is that his thoughts on sleep are pretty controversial within the sleep optimization community.

david_allisonon Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall (2022)

We've recently added a simulator in the deck options of the new scheduler.

If you don't want to upgrade to FSRS

* Export a colpkg

* File -> Switch Profile -> New

* Import

* Deck Options -> Enable FSRS & Optimize

* FSRS Simulator (experimental)

david_allisonon Why is zero plural? (2024)

From the underlying data:

* 1 dan

* 2 dneva

* 3 dnevi

* 5 dni

https://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/latest/supplemental/lang...

david_allisonon Metacognitive laziness: Effects of generative AI on learning motivation

> Questions activate my thinking more than anything, and of course my attempt at answering the question in my own terms.

This is very well-studied: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testing_effect [not a high-quality article, but should give an overview]

david_allisonon FrontierMath was funded by OpenAI

> The first page of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" begins with the following sentences:

> Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.

> They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.

> Mr Dursley was the director of a firm called Grunnings, which made drills.

> He was a big, beefy man with hardly any neck, although he did have a very large moustache.

> Mrs Dursley was thin

https://chatgpt.com/share/678e3306-c188-8002-a26c-ac1f32fee4...

david_allisonon TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users

It's hopeless to expect every member of the military to be thoughtful about cybersecurity. If they'll openly share nuclear secrets & base protocols publicly, anything is fair game.

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2021/05/28/us-soldiers-expos...

david_allisonon When will we fix the tools that run the world?

We can. Be the chance you wish to see in the world

david_allisonon Ads chew through half of mobile data

uBlock Origin is supported by Firefox on Android: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/ublock-origin...

david_allisonon 4.5M Suspected Fake Stars in GitHub

I suspect GP is referring to counting the occurrences of `git clone` [on a fork?], rather than counting forks via the GitHub UI