dothereading

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   Fine-tuning a small model for text simplification with simple verifiers(miguelconner.substack.com)

   1 points by dothereading 2mo ago|0 comments
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   by dothereading 1y ago

   I love Andy Matuschak! His podcast with Dwarkesh was so enlightening and his blog is great as well. He's one of those people whose work I go back and read every couple of months and I always learn something new
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   by dothereading 1y ago

   No, to be honest I haven't had so much practice with those kinds of cards; I've mostly used it for vocabulary and geography. How does it change things?
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   by dothereading 1y ago

   Ah sorry about that, I made this video a while ago but I forgot to link it on the home page. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntcWvoZYLec&t=10s&ab_channel... Thanks for pointing it out!
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   by dothereading 1y ago

   I agree with this, but at the same time I think LLMs will make anyone who wants to learn much smarter.
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   by dothereading 1y ago

   Wow the twenty rules article should be required reading for anyone downloading Anki.
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   by dothereading 1y ago

   In general I agree with this, and there is definitely something a bit insidious about optimizing the entire process so that you are on a perfectly calibrated i+1 treadmill. But, for some languages with different alphabets and roots, it real
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   by dothereading 1y ago

   Me too!
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   by dothereading 1y ago

   Yeah I was definitely doing too many for it to be fun. I think that when you have a really high level, Anki is actually even better than when you are at a lower level, because you already have the intuition for the language in general and y
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    by dothereading 1y ago

    I agree that they could be complementary, but I think there's a not-yet-made tool that goes even beyond this, where you are interacting with an LLM that has an Anki-like backend of some kind, keeping track not only the number of mistak
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    by dothereading 1y ago

    I had the exact same experience. The more work I did up front on a card, the better I was able to remember. When I was learning the kanji cards, I would take the time to draw them out in a special notebook while thinking carefully about the
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    by dothereading 1y ago

    So I definitely agree that this is 100% the best way to use Anki, that's why I wrote the line about "Writing cards that trigger memories of experiences I had in the real world always produced better cards." I couldn't gi
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    by dothereading 1y ago

    Thanks for the advice! I'll try modifying the prompt a bit and see if I can pull out more engaging questions.
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    I did 98,000 Anki reviews. Anki is already dead(miguelconner.substack.com)

    66 points by dothereading 1y ago|91 comments
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    Show HN: Active adaptive immersion reading for language learners(incontextlearning.com)

    3 points by dothereading 1y ago|1 comments
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    Show HN: A New Type of Dictionary for (Language) Learners(chromewebstore.google.com)

    3 points by dothereading 1y ago|0 comments
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    Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content--but different(incontextlearning.com)

    1 points by dothereading 1y ago|1 comments
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    by dothereading 1y ago

    When I saw a great Show HN post yesterday about a language learning with real-world content, I started to sweat a bit; the headline matched what I had been working on with a friend! But it turns out that we went in totally different directi