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Do it! Anki is amazing. Unfortunately, I have yet to manage to convince anyone else to use it... I can see how it can look intimidating. It's a big commitment t

by mclin 16y ago

Do it! Anki is amazing. Unfortunately, I have yet to manage to convince anyone else to use it... I can see how it can look intimidating. It's a big commitment to have to do expired flash cards every day! OTOH, things you put into Anki you can remember for the rest of your life! I wish I had it when I was in school. There's so much I've already forgotten... Can you imagine if doctors remembered everything they ever had to memorize in med school?

_delirium 16y ago
> Can you imagine if doctors remembered everything they ever had to memorize in med school? It'd be pretty amazing! Which is why it's unfortunate that we don't have a close approximation to that with a man/machine interaction, where people do the hard-to-automate bits, and machines do the rote memorization bits. The first diagnosis expert system to beat human doctors (in an admittedly narrow domain), MYCIN, is now something like 35 years old, and yet doctors still rarely use computational assistance. Or at least, they don't officially: I know plenty of doctors who use Wikipedia in their daily work.