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by david_allison 2y ago
Three Treasures (in Taoism) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Treasures_(Taoism)#Tao_T...
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by david_allison 2y ago
AFAIK, that referred to a DDOS by LulzSec, rather than a hack
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by david_allison 2y ago
It's even easier to give people a refund when it's open source
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by david_allison 2y ago
In-case you haven't updated: FSRS 5.0 was released in Anki 24.11
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> I don’t know what to do about how toxicity has become so normalised in online spaces that people don’t even bother to flag it. You find a new moderator who won't stand for it. They start escalating moderation action, and the wider
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by david_allison 2y ago
And yet it still hurts significantly less that Patreon
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by david_allison 2y ago
Any reliable sources on this?
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by david_allison 2y ago
Much appreciated, thank you! Still got a long way to go for me to be happy, but we make great progress every year https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/ankidroid-2024-roundup-2-20-1-c...
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by david_allison 2y ago
> I wish to see a FOSS incremental reading application in the very least, such an underrated concept. Be the change you wish to see in the world
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by david_allison 2y ago
We have a reasonable source for 70%[0]. There are a number of anti-Anki users (and to be honest, I don't blame them: there's 30k+ cards that they should learn in the 'meta' decks, and our onboarding is lacking). They&#x2
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by david_allison 2y ago
Interesting! Thanks for the insights. Do you happen to have the link to hand so I can delve into it, rather than refer to it anecdotally?
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by david_allison 2y ago
It's fine for MIT work. The Anki database format is still pretty opaque, despite a few efforts over the years, and it would be great to open some of this this up to allow apps to export apkgs It doesn't help that our wiki is noind
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by david_allison 2y ago
Hey stranger :D
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https://www.flagsarenotlanguages.com/blog/why-flags-do-not-r...
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by david_allison 2y ago
On the Anki side: if you document it, I'll answer questions.
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by david_allison 2y ago
There was a HN post a few months ago, [sadly I can't find it] which correlated healthy sleep with faster card answering times in Anki. I haven't used Supermemo, but believe it has fairly strong sleep tracking capabilities. I'
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by david_allison 2y ago
> Anki’s Flexable Spaced Repetition (FSRS) Sorry to nitpick: Free Spaced Repetition Scheduler https://github.com/open-spaced-repetition/
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by david_allison 2y ago
> The redundant nature of mass scale internet content operates on spaced repetition I think Not really. Depends on the definition of spaced repetition, but you typically want increasing intervals (normally exponentially) for it to be eff
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by david_allison 2y ago
Off the top of my head: John Carmack and Derek Sivers are Anki users. I've met a ton of brilliant people at Olympiads who use Anki, and you'll find heavy usage from people who rank #1 in highly competitive exams (JEE Advanced, Cam
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by david_allison 2y ago
SuperMemo 19 (2024 - Desktop/Windows) has incremental reading support https://super-memory.com/help/read.htm Disclaimer: AnkiDroid maintainer
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The site's a great rabbit hole to go down for a few days. Woz is the father of digital spaced repetition. Be aware that it's not peer reviewed, and some of the findings take a lot of experimentation if you want to dive deep and re
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by david_allison 2y ago
We've recently added a simulator in the deck options of the new scheduler. If you don't want to upgrade to FSRS * Export a colpkg * File -> Switch Profile -> New * Import * Deck Options -> Enable FSRS & Optimize * FSR
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by david_allison 2y ago
From the underlying data: * 1 dan * 2 dneva * 3 dnevi * 5 dni https://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/latest/supplemental/lang...
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> Questions activate my thinking more than anything, and of course my attempt at answering the question in my own terms. This is very well-studied: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testing_effect [not a high-quality ar
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by david_allison 2y ago
> The first page of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" begins with the following sentences: > Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very m
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by david_allison 2y ago
It's hopeless to expect every member of the military to be thoughtful about cybersecurity. If they'll openly share nuclear secrets & base protocols publicly, anything is fair game. https://www.bellingcat.com/ne
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by david_allison 2y ago
We can. Be the chance you wish to see in the world
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by david_allison 2y ago
uBlock Origin is supported by Firefox on Android: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/ublock-origin...
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by david_allison 2y ago
I suspect GP is referring to counting the occurrences of `git clone` [on a fork?], rather than counting forks via the GitHub UI
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Thankfully I have appropriate permissions

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