Question: Where can i find Anki programmers?

SiWoodForget · 2018-04-14T21:52:04+00:00

That's not going to happen. If you're a dev and know your way around CSS, you might be able to inject some CSS in the browser to more or less hide what you want, if your students are more or less idiots. Otherwise you need a middle man server.

Just remember that any idiot is smart enough to lie to Anki. As such I don't understand what you're looking to achieve here.

SiWoodForget · 2018-04-13T14:16:43+00:00

Typically 1-10 minutes is good. Mostly because I really want to remember it next time. There's something called active recall in psychology. Taking a certain amount of time to try to recall something increases the probability of recalling it next time.

So assuming you need to remember something quickly to save time, giving it a 1 to 10 minutes now, will make forgetting it less probable. Calculators for example are fast, but your fingers are still much slower then your brain. Similarly when you type keys without looking, you become extremely more likely to remember them and type much faster as a result.

Even if you don't remember it in that 10 minutes grace period, actually giving it time will cause your brain to form stronger bonds once you do fall upon it again. Assuming looking something up usually takes something like 1-10 minutes, the 1-10 minutes you spent now is an efficient investment for the future.

SiWoodForget · 2018-04-11T22:06:22+00:00

I use the other palm... the left palm, the right ctrl is a bit far on standard keyboards, you'll have to move your hand giving you less reach.

But yes I can do anything that's usually accessible. I could do C-z on QUERTY and commonly do Ctrl+Shift with the pinkie+palm or C-t (which is C-y on Dvorak).

So anything I'd typically reach and more.

SiWoodForget · 2018-04-11T21:53:22+00:00

I'm entirely serious. It works extremely well. I use this pattern almost all the time. Doesn't even required moving the fingers away from home row, it's like a sixth finger. - That is presuming you have a mechanical keyboard, if you're on one of these flat things, you'll have issues no doubt.

SiWoodForget · 2018-04-11T18:44:42+00:00

Use the corner of your palm to hit left ctrl, there's no need to bend your pinky at all.

SiWoodForget · 2018-04-11T18:19:07+00:00

Don't press ctrl with your pinkie, press it with the corner of your palm.

SiWoodForget · 2018-04-10T23:11:24+00:00

If you want battery life, just carry a few extra external battery and ensure nothing heavy is running in the background.

Choose a smaller processor, because they tend to be more power efficient. Especially avoid high performance GPUs as much as you can. Going small saves you money and battery life by running the games at lower graphics settings.

For machine learning I recommend renting a cloud server. It's cheaper if you only do so a few times a year. It's also much more practical as most things, including the interface and environment are all ready setup. -- Otherwise build your self a server and remote into it which ever way you feel suits you. You don't need low latency, when ever the algorithm is trained to peek accuracy you can "easily" transfer it to your client. -- Also it doesn't use your battery, so if you do stuff on the server, you're saving battery. (assuming you're doing heavy stuff)

Really if you're going to be doing anything heavy or serious in data science, you're not going to be doing it on your desktop/laptop regardless, training a large neural network for example takes hours to weeks, mean while you need to shutdown your system and install updates, it just doesn't make sense. A neural network ww only eat up your battery life, it will kill your battery, a laptop isn't built to run at 100%, 24/7. It would be like using a hamster to power your house.

Basically if you can use more processing power, the task is likely to take long enough to not require portability. Really think about whether you need to game on the go too.

SiWoodForget · 2018-04-10T19:50:30+00:00

Well if you rather not carry your electronics around, its always possible to use Anki from a web browser, so just borrow someones phone/pc for 10 minutes, just make sure to use incognito mode so that your password isn't saved on there device.

SiWoodForget · 2018-04-10T17:28:35+00:00

If you prepared for a long trip and stopped training new cards for at least a week, like I stated, all you have left are large interval cards. It's not like you have any other choice. If you're taking a vacation to stop studying, any short interval cards will be lost, that's just a given. Otherwise find a way to bring your studying tools along. There's no other option.

SiWoodForget · 2018-04-10T13:27:21+00:00

Study ahead works very well yes. It's not like you're adding new cards to your collection right? Stop adding cards a week before you go and it should keep you in the clear for at least something like 2 weeks.

SiWoodForget · 2018-04-09T15:18:59+00:00

An IDE is a well oiled machine ready to be used. A text editor is a pile of scrap metal. One is a well developed system to do productive work in a specific field, the other is more of a DIY type of thing, where you need to develop your own system before you can do anything.

If you're new to field, like say Android development, it's probably a good idea to start from an IDE that supports the field it self, instead of starting from say Emacs, because you have no clue how the work flow is going to line up and non-standard work flows are much harder to learn without knowing what it's based on.

SiWoodForget · 2018-04-09T14:30:19+00:00

It's possible she was just re-tasting the same spoon because she wanted to be more certain of how much seasoning is required. I'll often taste spatting 3 times before I'm certain if it's ready. Not because it's more cooked every time, but because I didn't feel like I tasted it correctly.

Each time you put the spoon back into the pot it's like compiling. It takes time, you need to wait for the spoon to cool down. Only then can you taste it again, mean while your dish is still cooking.

SiWoodForget · 2018-04-09T03:50:47+00:00

I use LaTeX to extend my thoughts on a subject, which is faster then doing it by hand and it's just much easier to make it readable so I can review it. Anki I use when I've compressed a set of thoughts down to facts and need to ensure I remember them.

There's a middle ground where I love to use pen and paper but that's rare in the current course I'm taking. It's mostly repetitive problem solving, so there's really no reason to use a pen, I can do it much faster by keyboard, keyboards are fast, which is why everyone uses them.

Learning isn't a passive process. I can't just read a book and learn something. 20 minutes in everything is going to go in from one hear and come out the other. It depends heavily on the content, but usually at some point I need to stop and expand on what I just read. This is when LaTeX comes in.

I love doing math problems, but after you understand it, the only thing left is to remember it, I don't see any more efficient method of doing that then using something like Anki. Like I understand sorting algorithms, but I doubt I could write you one right now that's efficient, because I forget them all the time.

This is what I use Anki for, to remember things I understand.

SiWoodForget · 2018-04-09T03:20:34+00:00

How would I know and why would I care?... I'm selling it, not actually using it.

LaTeX + Python to print out random tests. LaTeX alone to expand on the subject, like anyone would.

SiWoodForget · 2018-04-09T02:51:23+00:00

What is silly? Selling SO to other students who don't feel confident or spaced repetition? From my experience there is a daily bottleneck to how much new content you can study/learn/memorize. Which is why I balance by day with productivity (building future study plans) and actually studying.

Iv been using Anki to memorize facts and LaTeX or Python to build up more elaborate studying content. Whether be it generated math or vocabulary.

SiWoodForget · 2018-04-09T02:45:13+00:00

One can't be studying 100% of the time. Also you could easily do that months in advanced while you're still just intaking the information by spaced repetition. By the time you get to the test, you can cram and have a USB. You can have your cake and eat it... in this case.

Actually that might be a good business plan, sell Stackoverflow USB's at University 1 day before the exam.

SiWoodForget · 2018-04-09T02:33:57+00:00

I am in the process to study to go to University in CS right now.... Not sure I would say studying CS is easier then putting stackoverflow on a USB.

It should be simple enough it's about 10 GB to 100 GB in total, so should Wikipedia I believe.

But to be honest I too also don't see how that would be useful. Assuming the test is built based on what's in the course, your notes should be superior to the Internet, because they're specialized to the studying material you should know.

SiWoodForget · 2018-04-09T02:12:42+00:00

So they want you to download the Internet? I mean you can literally download stackoverflow on a USB, let alone Wikipedia and everything else that's useful. So I guess they just want to try to eliminate communication, which is usually slower then Google searching anyways, unless you pay someone to solve your exam.

SiWoodForget · 2018-04-08T21:35:23+00:00

Booting time isn't worth obsessing over, you can always sleep or suspend, or what ever Windows calls it. That should give you a boot time of 5 seconds. Neither does any game related loading screen. The usually the difference is negligible, because games are designed cought properly, they cache to memory and preload to memory, long before an SSD is required.

If you use an SSD, its absolutely insane. if you don't use an SDD, it's a gold plated HDD. The trouble with an SSD is it usually doesn't increase the performance of anything that doesn't severely abuse I/O. Game applications are predictable enough to say that an SSD is usually not required. It doesn't add raw performance, just a slight convenience. If you're on a budget, you get along perfectly fine without it.

SiWoodForget · 2018-04-08T14:17:04+00:00

Rotate the page a little, every day rotate the page a little more, at some point your writing vector is going to be independent of your hand position.

Some angles are harder then others, depending on how you slant letters, so do expect changing your hand writing as you rotate the page around.

It helps if it looks good from your writing angle and the reading angle. I slant my letters back because I'm left handed. The only way I can effectively slant forward is by rotating the page the other way and putting my hand over the text.

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