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Has anyone got a solid anki deck for probability and linear algebra?
by nmca 6y ago
Has anyone got a solid anki deck for probability and linear algebra?
- Smaug123 6y agoI'd strongly recommend making them yourself. Everyone understands these things differently, and ideally your cards will complement the structures already represented in your own mind. Ideally, a card will shine light on one tiny aspect of the model you already have in your mind; if you're using cards shaped around a different model, and you drop them into place around your own model, the lights may be at strange angles or highlighting big complex things.
- RMPR 6y agoCan definitely relate, Anki started to make sense after I started creating my own cards. Not batch-creating mind you, but carefully crafting each one, and updating when necessary while reviewing.
- BeetleB 6y agoDecks other people wrote usually aren't useful. You need to make your own flash cards. It's painful, but it's much more useful.
- hikarudo 6y agoI used to think so too. Then I read the research on this, and the evidence suggests the opposite of what you wrote: your time is better spent doing retrieval practice than creating your own cards. https://www.learningscientists.org/ https://www.learningscientists.org/
- BeetleB 6y agoI think the counterargument is more along the lines of: Downloadable decks will have a fairly high percentage of irrelevant cards for you, and will always lack a lot of useful cards for you (the latter is something I'm pretty sure is true). When I am exposed to some new thing, parts of it will stick immediately, and other parts will need some kind of processing on my part before I internalize it. When you are exposed to the same new thing, those parts that stick and those that need processing will usually differ from mine. Hence it's hard to make a deck that works well for the majority.