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The '''expert response heuristic for prompt writing''' says that when writing [[spaced repetition]] prompts, the prompt should be answerable by an expert in the subject who knows the material very well but hasn't read the exact same source material you read. This forces prompts to be phrased in "timeless/contextless" ways that don't rely on a particular source material.

Pros:

* easier to share cards with others. It's annoying to use prompts someone else has written for material that you basically know well, but the prompt writer used a different source text or a source text you don't particularly care for, and then you're sort of forced to memorize contingent facts ''about'' the source material instead of facts about the subject in general.

Cons:

* specific phrasing used in one source material can get stuck in one's verbal loop, such that it's easier to memorize when one allows such phrases to be used as crutches? it seems fine to allow that.

My current feeling is that maybe half of one's cards should be like this, while the other half can be more about specific source material.

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	With [[Tao Analysis Flashcards]], I can try to phrase things such that people reading the textbook will retain the material well. And since I already have worked through the book, I know which pieces of knowledge will be more useful later on. But at the same time, I am also sticking closely to the text's material, so I fear the cards are not comprehensible to people who studied analysis from a different book.		With [[Tao Analysis Flashcards]], I can try to phrase things such that people reading the textbook will retain the material well. And since I already have worked through the book, I know which pieces of knowledge will be more useful later on. But at the same time, I am also sticking closely to the text's material, so I fear the cards are not comprehensible to people who studied analysis from a different book.
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 Some things, like notation (which can vary across textbooks) can't be phrased in this way.
-With [[Tao Analysis Flashcards]], I can trying to phrase things such that people reading the textbook will retain the material well. And since I already have worked through the book, I know which pieces of knowledge will be more useful later on. But at the same time, I am also sticking closely to the text's material, so I fear the cards are not comprehensible to people who studied analysis from a different book.
+With [[Tao Analysis Flashcards]], I can try to phrase things such that people reading the textbook will retain the material well. And since I already have worked through the book, I know which pieces of knowledge will be more useful later on. But at the same time, I am also sticking closely to the text's material, so I fear the cards are not comprehensible to people who studied analysis from a different book.
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	The expert response heuristic seems more useful in "hard" topics like math and CS, and less useful in things like life advice or whatever (it's hard to write prompts about "what do you do in this situation" without referring to specific strategies that other experts might not know about? maybe the problem is that there is no agreed-upon discipline/answers here).		The expert response heuristic seems more useful in "hard" topics like math and CS, and less useful in things like life advice or whatever (it's hard to write prompts about "what do you do in this situation" without referring to specific strategies that other experts might not know about? maybe the problem is that there is no agreed-upon discipline/answers here).
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		+	Some things, like notation (which can vary across textbooks) can't be phrased in this way.
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		+	With [[Tao Analysis Flashcards]], I can trying to phrase things such that people reading the textbook will retain the material well. And since I already have worked through the book, I know which pieces of knowledge will be more useful later on. But at the same time, I am also sticking closely to the text's material, so I fear the cards are not comprehensible to people who studied analysis from a different book.

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 I first had these thoughts after doing the prompts in [[Andy Matuschak]]'s prompt writing guide. I read the guide pretty quickly, then just went for the prompts. I thought that since I've already been writing prompts for a couple years, and since the guide didn't seem to contain new material for me, that I could easily answer the prompts. I found that a lot of the prompts asked for pretty weird phrases/words like "vivid" and so forth, so that even though there was nothing really new in a sense, that I was being forced to stick to the very contingent facts appearing in the text.
-The expert response heuristic seems more useful in "hard" topics like math and CS, and less useful in things like life advice or whatever (it's hard to write prompts about "what do you do in this situation" without referring to specific strategies that other experts might not know about? maybe the problem is that there is no agreed-upon discipline here).
+The expert response heuristic seems more useful in "hard" topics like math and CS, and less useful in things like life advice or whatever (it's hard to write prompts about "what do you do in this situation" without referring to specific strategies that other experts might not know about? maybe the problem is that there is no agreed-upon discipline/answers here).
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	I first had these thoughts after doing the prompts in [[Andy Matuschak]]'s prompt writing guide. I read the guide pretty quickly, then just went for the prompts. I thought that since I've already been writing prompts for a couple years, and since the guide didn't seem to contain new material for me, that I could easily answer the prompts. I found that a lot of the prompts asked for pretty weird phrases/words like "vivid" and so forth, so that even though there was nothing really new in a sense, that I was being forced to stick to the very contingent facts appearing in the text.		I first had these thoughts after doing the prompts in [[Andy Matuschak]]'s prompt writing guide. I read the guide pretty quickly, then just went for the prompts. I thought that since I've already been writing prompts for a couple years, and since the guide didn't seem to contain new material for me, that I could easily answer the prompts. I found that a lot of the prompts asked for pretty weird phrases/words like "vivid" and so forth, so that even though there was nothing really new in a sense, that I was being forced to stick to the very contingent facts appearing in the text.
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		+	The expert response heuristic seems more useful in "hard" topics like math and CS, and less useful in things like life advice or whatever (it's hard to write prompts about "what do you do in this situation" without referring to specific strategies that other experts might not know about? maybe the problem is that there is no agreed-upon discipline here).

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	My current feeling is that maybe half of one's cards should be like this, while the other half can be more about specific source material.		My current feeling is that maybe half of one's cards should be like this, while the other half can be more about specific source material.
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		+	There is a similar thing that sometimes happens in talks where the lecturer will ask the audience a question, and the audience sometimes gives good thoughts but the lecturer is looking for some specific answer, in a way that seems unfair to the audience. I feel like prompts that don't follow this heuristic can give this flavor.
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		+	I first had these thoughts after doing the prompts in [[Andy Matuschak]]'s prompt writing guide. I read the guide pretty quickly, then just went for the prompts. I thought that since I've already been writing prompts for a couple years, and since the guide didn't seem to contain new material for me, that I could easily answer the prompts. I found that a lot of the prompts asked for pretty weird phrases/words like "vivid" and so forth, so that even though there was nothing really new in a sense, that I was being forced to stick to the very contingent facts appearing in the text.

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	Pros:		Pros:

		+	* people can have different mental representations for the same object, and I think this heuristic encourages freedom in having these different representations (it's sort of similar to the heuristic of how, if you can get the right answer, then it doesn't matter how you solved it).
	* easier to share cards with others. It's annoying to use prompts someone else has written for material that you basically know well, but the prompt writer used a different source text or a source text you don't particularly care for, and then you're sort of forced to memorize contingent facts ''about'' the source material instead of facts about the subject in general.		* easier to share cards with others. It's annoying to use prompts someone else has written for material that you basically know well, but the prompt writer used a different source text or a source text you don't particularly care for, and then you're sort of forced to memorize contingent facts ''about'' the source material instead of facts about the subject in general.