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I created a python script that checks my anki deck for the cards that I'm scheduled to review the next day and asks an LLM to generate new sentences for the cards, so that every time I see them, I see them in a new context.

I did this because I realized I was hitting an issue where I theoretically "knew" a word (would get it always correct on the card), but wouldn't always recognize it in a novel context.

I'm hoping that having the context be variable when I'm learning it will help fix this issue.

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Llamamoe1y ago· 1 in thread

That sounds like a really useful project!! Have you considered publishing it?

MostlyStableOP1y ago

I don't think what I wrote would be very generally useful, other than the basic idea of it. I wrote it with some pretty narrow assumptions about card layout etc that work for my exact deck, and it's not designed to be flexible. It wouldn't be hard to adjust it I don't think, but also it's such a simple script, that once you have gotten to the point of changing it, you aren't much beyond writing it from scratch either.

AlchemistCamp1y ago

> ”I realized I was hitting an issue where I theoretically "knew" a word (would get it always correct on the card), but wouldn't always recognize it in a novel context.”

Some of the problem is due to the specificity of the training effect. I.e., if you mostly practice something through flash cards then you’re going to be training your ability to work with that on flash cards.

With language, there’s an additional challenge—many if not most words have different meanings in different contexts.

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bspammer1y ago

That’s a really clever use for LLMs, I have the exact same problem with my Anki deck. Do you store all the historical sentences for each card or is it just a destructive overwrite each time?

bryanhogan1y ago

This sounds useful. Maybe someone could create an Anki plugin that does this.

Or is there something similar already available?

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