I don’t think it’s useful. Using a badly formatted deck is a waste of time. Creating new cards isn’t the bottleneck when it comes to learning knowledge with Anki.
As said—the deck is not intended to serve for memorization of the definitions as they appear in the wiki, but to get acquainted with the concepts.
This is how I approach also other LessWrong decks (those listed in the wiki for example). It is a bit different from the type of information for which Anki is actually best applicable such as learning vocabulary, capital cities etc.
The default rate in Anki is ~20 new cards—creating this amount of proper cards daily is a huge time barrier (at least for me… even at 10/day).
That been said it woud be great to have a proper Anki deck with the LessWrong glossary.
Forgetting items and thus having to repeat them is the bottleneck.
(1) “Do not learn if you do not understand” and (2) “Learn before you memorize” are key rules for learning with a spaced repetition system.
If someone simply takes this deck without the underlying concepts in the Wiki, he’s likely to try to memorize stuff that he doesn’t fully understand.
“Read about a concept → Understand it → Make a card for it” is more effective than using a premade deck.
Making minimum information cards in itself force you to understand a concept. You have to determine what’s important about it.
I don’t think it’s useful. Using a badly formatted deck is a waste of time. Creating new cards isn’t the bottleneck when it comes to learning knowledge with Anki.
As said—the deck is not intended to serve for memorization of the definitions as they appear in the wiki, but to get acquainted with the concepts.
This is how I approach also other LessWrong decks (those listed in the wiki for example). It is a bit different from the type of information for which Anki is actually best applicable such as learning vocabulary, capital cities etc.
The default rate in Anki is ~20 new cards—creating this amount of proper cards daily is a huge time barrier (at least for me… even at 10/day).
That been said it woud be great to have a proper Anki deck with the LessWrong glossary.
What is the bottleneck with learning knowledge with Anki then?
Also, I don’t think the deck is useless. It just needs improvement.
Forgetting items and thus having to repeat them is the bottleneck.
(1) “Do not learn if you do not understand” and (2) “Learn before you memorize” are key rules for learning with a spaced repetition system.
If someone simply takes this deck without the underlying concepts in the Wiki, he’s likely to try to memorize stuff that he doesn’t fully understand.
“Read about a concept → Understand it → Make a card for it” is more effective than using a premade deck. Making minimum information cards in itself force you to understand a concept. You have to determine what’s important about it.