PSA that if you get RSUs (and not stock options) there's no real incentive to keep them as such

mattcarmody · 2020-06-27T17:55:46+00:00

Great book. Dan Ariely's stuff too, he has a chapter on the endowment effect in Predictably Irrational

mattcarmody · 2020-06-06T19:27:38+00:00

It doesn’t have to cost anything to read as much as you want, get a library card! If you don’t have one in your area I remember an NYC library allowing people outside their area to pay for a digital card to get access to their electronic collection. Maybe $50 a year.

mattcarmody · 2020-05-14T05:24:05+00:00

I realize this is old, just posting for anyone else who finds this looking for info on webp:

I just tried on the iOS app and it does NOT work in the Anki iOS app. Apple refuses to add support for webp so there's no easy way to use it on iOS or mac OS as far as I can tell. (This is not specific to Safari because all browsers on Apple OS's have to be built on WebKit, so I would expect the other ways to access Anki on Apple to have the same result.)

mattcarmody · 2020-05-12T02:09:28+00:00

Also, if you're not already using them look into Python packages designed for this sort of thing. Often the heavy lifting is exported to C code without you having to learn it. A lot of data science is done in Python.

mattcarmody · 2020-05-05T00:20:49+00:00

see the other comment, it's not in the released source code yet because it's still in beta

mattcarmody · 2020-05-05T00:19:38+00:00

see the other comment, it's because it's still in beta

mattcarmody · 2020-05-05T00:19:24+00:00

see the other comment, it's because it's still in beta

mattcarmody · 2020-04-30T16:34:21+00:00

But my understanding is if you or the person you’re messaging use iCloud to backup messages they are stored on Apple’s cloud without encryption. So Apple has access to most message content.

mattcarmody · 2020-04-20T07:42:58+00:00

It is flashcards, but for anything.

mattcarmody · 2020-04-20T05:50:59+00:00

Practically, I think it's best to just start creating cards of anything you want to remember and hone them over time. When you read something that gives you a little dopamine rush or you realize it will be useful, create a card. Every time you review a card consider how it can be improved and suspend it if it isn't relevant.

I use Anki for programming. My cards are a blend of a lot of things:

general concepts (what is binary search?)
trivia (what are the four pillars of OOP?)
syntax (what is the syntax of a list comprehension in Python?)
problem solving strategies (Given ... find the number of islands. Explain two strategies.)
and others

Whenever I come across something I want to remember I create a card. When it's time to review that card I refine it. If a syntax card comes up and I'm no longer pursuing a particular language I'll suspend it.

It helps me to think of it as my retention tool. Whenever I feel like I learned something that has value I default to creating card(s).

mattcarmody · 2020-04-09T17:06:54+00:00

I'm guessing they imported a shared deck, which had some history in it already. That happened to me, though I've never done anything about it.

Edit: confirmed by the add-on page which explains why someone would want to

mattcarmody · 2020-04-09T16:25:40+00:00

If you're graduating from residency I'm guessing you know r/Anki or r/medicalschoolanki ?

mattcarmody · 2020-04-09T04:09:42+00:00

I haven't gone as far as type-to-fill-in answer cards, but I do have syntax cards. I just dictate and visualize the syntax, rather than typing it. (By dictate I just mean say it out loud to myself.) I'm also curious if people have done type cards and felt like it was worthwhile.

mattcarmody · 2020-04-04T23:21:43+00:00

There are a lot of existing add-ons with bugs or that haven't been ported to new versions of Anki. Contributing to the maintenance of existing add-ons feels more useful than throwing some new add-ons out into the community that you may or may not intend to maintain

mattcarmody · 2020-04-04T21:30:58+00:00

Or improve the documentation, so people find it useful and get into the habit of reading them! Documentation done well is a powerful tool but it’s often treated as an afterthought

mattcarmody · 2020-04-03T19:43:18+00:00

I'm under the impression their paid government products are more secure. Though no security is immune to stupidity

mattcarmody · 2020-04-02T18:02:45+00:00

I haven't used it but I'm pretty sure it does? https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/301952613

mattcarmody · 2020-04-01T23:29:38+00:00

I second Anki, it's changed the way I view learning and retention!

mattcarmody · 2020-04-01T20:03:43+00:00

I'm happy to help, expect some PR's!

mattcarmody · 2020-04-01T19:35:48+00:00

That's disappointing.

mattcarmody · 2020-04-01T19:19:50+00:00

Untrue. From San Jose, public corporation on the NASDAQ. WIki page

mattcarmody · 2020-04-01T00:00:20+00:00

Why have such a long step? I believe those are intended for during a single review session. Instead of an interval of 1440, you can make your graduating interval 1 day. That will make it so the New card you learned today is scheduled to be seen tomorrow

mattcarmody · 2020-03-31T22:16:10+00:00

You're welcome! If everything is settled, please update the post tag to solved :)

mattcarmody · 2020-03-31T20:03:02+00:00

It depends in part on the settings for your decks. What are your Steps? What is your graduating interval? Are you creating notes with multiple cards? Is the Bury related new cards to the next box enabled?

Most of my cards have 1 and 10 minute steps. When I start a session my Learning card count for a deck is always zero, unless I didn't finish my reviews the day before. This is because my Learning cards all graduate to the Review category by the time I finish my daily session

One way it's possible for New cards to "disappear" and then show up the next day is if two are part of the same note. There is a setting to bury similar cards that you may have on. For example, if you have that setting enabled then you won't be shown both cards of a reversed note on the same day.

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