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0 pointsjpalomaki2y ago0 comments

At least for me this often means, that I just keep on lookin up the stuff over and over again. Takes some deliberate effort to actually store some obscure things in my memory.

When I was still active with Anki, I was mostly picking up some random things I knew I would need fairly often and included those in my deck.

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OJFord2y ago

But that means you're doing tar flag flashcards more often than you're using those tar flags? Because otherwise, and for me, the CLI usage is the flashcard? Using them is what teaches me and keeps fresh the commands and flags that I most often use.

Version4672y ago

Not necessarily. Hypothetical example, but let's say I use some obscure tar command twice a month. That's too far apart for me to remember it, but often enough that it would annoy me to look it up every time. Chuck it into anki and I have a short time where I repeat it often enough so that it sticks and after that the time between repetitions quickly becomes far longer than the 14 day interval where I actually use the command.

And now I never have to look it up again :)

Arisaka12y ago

I think that's the original claim: That you're memorizing something that you use 12-20 times per year. Why not turn that into a script, or make it a memorable alias?

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ants_everywhere2y ago

This is the issue I've found with SRS style memorization in general. It's basically the definition of overfitting.

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