quarok

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by quarok 2y ago
Gizmo | Software Engineers | London | Hybrid | https://gizmo.ai Gizmo is a startup on a mission to make learning so easy and fun that anyone can learn anything. We're aiming to help 1 billion people learn by building Duolin
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by quarok 3y ago
My understanding of Plato's cave is that it is about the disparity between the ideas in our head and reality. For example, you know what a triangle is, but there is no such thing as a triangle in the world, only imperfect shapes with t
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by quarok 4y ago
Firstly, in terms of the distinction between learning and knowing -- the thing that matters most is the strength of the encoding in the brain. If you just memorise something with 0 understanding, the connections in the brain aren't as
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by quarok 4y ago
The problem is that if you don't commit information to long-term memory you can't use it reason effectively in other contexts, and you have to add it back to your short-term memory every time you look it up -- so outsourcing your
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by quarok 4y ago
yes, we need understanding - the best way to get things into memory is to make connections between neurons through understanding. And this keeps it in memory for longer than if you just memorise it — and it will enable you to deploy the inf
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by quarok 6y ago
Hi HN, I'm Robin, co-founder of Save All. Save All is a spaced repetition app that uses machine learning to help people remember everything. After telling us what you want to remember, we generate multiple choice quizzes that test you
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Show HN: Remember Everything with Save All(saveall.ai)
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by quarok 6y ago
If you wanted to do Cloze questions, you can use saveall.ai (a tool that I built) to generate them automatically from fragments of texts. We also plan to work on automatically generating questions from a larger chunk of text, but it is very
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by quarok 6y ago
What's weird about the above comment is that this course specifically talks about spaced repetition and active recall as the only ways to learn effectively. I took this course and it revolutionised my life - but mostly because I starte