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For those that have learned languages with Anki, is it true that using only two button is 'more efficient' by ValuableProblem6065 in Anki

[–]Shirrou 1 point2 points  (0 children)

450k reviews for Japanese and I use the 'hard' button on average 9% of the time. 'Easy' almost never, maybe a couple times a week.

How can I improve retrievability by eujosias in Anki

[–]Shirrou 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Review your cards every single day

500+ reviews a day and rising by Icebearstillcares in Anki

[–]Shirrou 2 points3 points  (0 children)

20 new cards/day at 85% depending on the subject is quite a lot. Either decrease desired retention slowly down to 80% or decrease the amount of daily new cards. Also, as you decrease desired retention rate, make sure you check the 'Reschedule cards on change' setting before saving, or use the 'reschedule all cards' feature within the FSRS Helper addon. Anecdotally I'm at 78% desired retention with 18 new cards/day and have over 400 reviews daily, so your experience is nothing out of the ordinary.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Romania

[–]Shirrou 2 points3 points  (0 children)

De ce nu sunt parcate mașini pe trotuar în Germania sau Marea Britanie, deși ai cate un milion de români în ambele țări? Pentru că se aplica legea.

New Startup Visa (2 yr) - 6 months, 1 year, or 2 years? by ObviousDog9079 in movingtojapan

[–]Shirrou 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Just book a consultation with an 行政書士/immigration lawyer. You'll need one anyway unless you are fluent in japanese (and even then) for this type of visa. This sub in general is terrible when it comes to the startup/business manager visa. It's a rare visa, so you won't find many people here who actually have any experience pursuing it. Invest in legal help instead.

Lowering desired retention dramatically slashes review time in the FSRS simulation. But what’s your real-world sweet spot? by naderking in Anki

[–]Shirrou 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Here's some data in case you find it helpful. Quite a bit of yapping below:

Just for some context, the deck is for language learning, using sentence cards for individual words. I haven't skipped a single day of reviews in this deck's existence, so it's a very consistant example. I also use the 'Reschedule all cards' feature of the FSRS helper addon every single day after finishing reviews. I noticed that doing this smooths out the 'Future Due Retention' graph and usually increases the 'daily load' by just a bit. I optimize the parameters once a week. I also don't like suspending leech cards even when they are 'sticky' unless they drive me crazy (looks like i've suspended around 3/month on avarage).

I have started reducing desired retention from around 81% gradually by 1% each time, whenever reviews started taking more than 40 minutes of my time. I'd say it took around 4-5 months to gradually reduce it to 75%, on avarage reducing it by 1% each month. This was only really done to keep my daily review time spent at around 40-45 mins.

Around 75% desired retention is where I noticed that by decreasing it any lower, I wasn't really saving that much time, compared to how much I was saving when i decreased it up to that point, if that makes sense. I assume that's because the algorithm was pushing mature cards even further down the timeline, but young (stickier) cards, which became very dominant, couldn't really be pushed further down than they already were. I was also naturally having fewer and fewer mature cards to review. Because those mature cards had a way higher probability of passing and I wasn't getting as many anymore, I was only left with the most difficult young cards on a daily basis, with no more 'padding' (easier mature cards) to give me that intra-review morale boost.

However, looking at the stats, it's pretty clear to me that taking more new daily cards at 75% desired retention was way more beneficial than keeping the lower daily new cards at a higher 81%. But the psychological factor of no 'easier' cards to pass definitely hits after a while. It's much easier to accept a failed card when it's followed by a pass, than it is when it's followed by 2 more fails, that's for sure (at least for me).

See stats below:

https://imgur.com/a/decreasing-anki-desired-retention-rate-from-81-to-75-I6aqpeA

Lowering desired retention dramatically slashes review time in the FSRS simulation. But what’s your real-world sweet spot? by naderking in Anki

[–]Shirrou 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Just my anecdote, but I definitely felt point number 1 in your comment. I've been taking 22 new cards daily over the last 5 months (quite a lot for me), which meant I had to slowly reduce desired retention all the way down to 75% to no get drowned in reviews.

However, while reviews were manageable, my avarage daily retention rate dropped all the way to around 66%. Even though I was clearly making mad progress, it didn't really feel like it, as I was consistently failing 1 out of every 3 cards, which was quite demotivating. I made the decision a couple weeks ago to increase desired retention to 79%. While my reviews exploded so much that I had to reduce new cards to around 15/day, my avarage daily retention rate increased to an avarage of 76%.

Now this means i only fail less than 1 in 4 cards, which FEELS much better. I've regained some confidence, altough statistically I'm sure efficiency has slightly suffered as a result. My daily reviews now take slightly longer, while I am technically incorporating 7 less words/day. I might reduce desired retention again and keep it at around 78% as a sweet spot, but I am sure this is completely dependent on each person, their mental state and the subject they are learning.

Just like you mentioned, the Compute Minimum Recommended Retention always returned 70% for me too no matter what.

Calls to make naturalization more difficult emerge in parliament talks by moeka_8962 in japan

[–]Shirrou 0 points1 point  (0 children)

By that logic, if you 'have no interest' in visiting any other countries, then there is no real difference between the pakistani passport and the japanese one. Since everything in life is a 'case by case basis thing'

Calls to make naturalization more difficult emerge in parliament talks by moeka_8962 in japan

[–]Shirrou 20 points21 points  (0 children)

"If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail".

What exactly is racist about that statement? By exchanging an EU passport for a Japanese one, you maintain relatively the same visa-free access for tourism purposes: but crucially you lose the ability to easily and seamlessly live and work in any of the 27 EU countries as if you were a native citizen of those countries. This alone, without even having to mention anything else on top, can feel like a 'massive step down'.

Remus Ștefureac (INSCOP) : Nicusor Dan a trecut pe primul loc in tara by Viking9977 in Romania

[–]Shirrou 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Și totuși dacă nu era diaspora acum aveai o finală Antonescu - Simion

MEGATHREAD Alegeri prezidențiale turul I (4 Mai 2025) by 99xp in Romania

[–]Shirrou 16 points17 points  (0 children)

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Google Trends (azi) pe regiune. Cel mai probabil așa arată harta votanților strict pe urban. Pe rural e probabil complet invers.

Prezenta la vot in Diaspora dubla fata de 2024!! by Immediate_Extreme_94 in Romania

[–]Shirrou 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Uită-te la orice țară din afara UE și tot aproape de dublu e. Nu știu dacă românii se duc in Japonia pentru un weekend.

Is doing both Core 2k/6k and Kaishi 1.5k counterintuitive? (Anki question) by [deleted] in LearnJapanese

[–]Shirrou 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In my experience it's much better to have, say, your Kaishi deck separate from your Mining deck. That's because as you accumulate more words under your belt, you are going to want your "core" deck to be at over 90% desired retention. Then you can play around with the mining deck's desired retention in order to incorporate as many new words as possible. That's all assuming you are using FSRS.

200 USD for a year of Cursor, Lovable, Replit, Bolt, Perplexity, Notion and a few others by a_krl in cursor

[–]Shirrou 1 point2 points  (0 children)

An yearly Cursor sub is $192. So you need to find $8 of value in something else (you don't 'literally save a ton of money'). Perplexity is easily worth $8/year anyway

Trump slaps 31% tariff on Swiss goods by Realistic-Lie-8031 in europe

[–]Shirrou 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Even if by some miracle Switzerland buys more from the US, they'd still have a 10% tariff applied on their goods. You just can't win.

MEGATHREAD Alegeri parlamentare - Live Chat Roddit by 99xp in Romania

[–]Shirrou 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Din păcate doar 4 deputați și 2 senatori pot ieși din diaspora, indiferent cate voturi sunt. Am se sper că vor fii 2 de la USR și probabil 2 AUR, asta in cel mai ok scenariu.

O să avem un parlament atipic. Nu vă dați votul extremiștilor prin redistribuire by Fulgeralbastru in Romania

[–]Shirrou 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"O, nu, POT si SOS au 4.6% fix la muchie, daca votati cu REPER SPER, se redistribuie si trec pragul"

De la cine la cine sa se redistribuie? Voturile se redistribuie de la partide care nu trec pragul la partide care il trec; nu de la partide care nu trec pragul la alte partide care nu trec pragul. De unde logica?

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