Knowledge

• 7 repetitions usually suffice to remember information for life – https://open.substack.com/pub/astralcodexten/p/a-theoretical-case-against-education?r=1r8dq&utm_medium=ios
• via Robert Long tweet: “It's not responsible for the biggest change to my life, but I think that this is the piece of writing that has most obviously and legibly changed my life.”
• Creativity largely involves connecting newly encountered ideas with those stored in memory. Epiphanies occur more frequently when you can retrieve a wider range of information with high accuracy ~ via Andy Matuschak from this interview
• Techniques: memorizing poem via Nathan Each card’s front is one line of the poem; the back is the line that follows it link you may use: blury sibling cards

Tools

Software

Anki

Mochi used by Dwarkesh Patel

Search for decks

https://www.cram.com/flashcards

https://www.studystack.com/

• Way to import in bulk to Anki via .tsv
• Perhaps a good idea is to set the ease factor on 2.2?

Personal notes / calibration

• In practice you often recall things by context not by underlining knowledge. What I mean is the following examples. I think it’s important to think how to counter this tendency.
  • my card “What is fourth US amendment?” is more in me head “oh in my cards there is this new one that can pop up next to a question “What’s the reason and “case” that created the Fourth Amendment?” Oh then I remember what is it.
  • or it’s easier for me to recall a fact when doing the review than when trying to recall it in the real world eg.: like literally maybe the way it is phrased helps me recall it, or that looking at my software puts my brain in that space that helps me recall it
  • Brainstorming solutions:
    • [maybe wokring] have more cards from different angles of the problem, to cover more context space, access routes so it’s easier to retrieve it in the wild.
    • I think this supports the case of following atomic structure of cards (and more of them)
    • When u have a chance of retrieving something in the real world put attention and energy there
• In memory ≠ in active imagination
  • when u have a card and u successfully went through all the memory steps. You technically have it in your memory bank. But I don’t think it’s different that having it active in your imagination. Eg.: you are able to recall it but you will not have it as an inspiring thing that pops up in your head during conversation or when you are writing or working on your project. Solutions
  • Brainstorming solutions:
    • Mark some cards for active imagination and review them quickly in batches, maybe even w/out active recall

Fav resources

Augmenting long-term memory

Guide on using Anki correctly

Spaced repetition for efficient learning

[How to write good prompts by Andy Matuschak ](https://www.pawel.world/How-to-write-good-prompts-by-15a7d72d0640807cb785ccce9925583e)

• Other links

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