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- 04:02, 15 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+697) . . N Spaced repetition experiments take months to complete (Created page with "By the very nature of spaced repetition, any experiment that tries to test some aspect of it will take months to complete. This is because in order to see how much you remembe...")
- 03:41, 15 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1,504) . . N Bury effortful cards to speed up review (Created page with "A spaced repetition deck has cards varying in difficulty. One problem you might have is that because there are these more effortful cards, you might be tempted to skip reviewi...")
- 03:17, 15 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+547) . . N Add the complete proof on proof cards to reduce friction when reviewing (Created page with "i also now think that putting the full solution on the card, rather than just a reference to a textbook or web page, is better. it keeps everything self-contained, so when you...")
- 02:47, 15 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+701) . . N Spaced proof review routine (Created page with "Here are the basic steps I take for spaced proof review. For each proof/exercise: # Do the proof for the first time. This isn't any different from what people normally d...")
- 02:41, 15 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+833) . . N Do an empty review of proof cards immediately after adding to prevent backlog (Created page with "Proof cards are big, so you probably have a limit to new cards per day (maybe 1-5). This means if you solve a bunch of exercises on a day, you can add more cards...")
- 02:06, 15 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1,220) . . N Why ain'tcha better at math (Created page with "I feel like one response people might have, if they hear that I think I have new and exciting way to learn math, is to ask why I personally am not the best at math. There are...")
- 01:40, 15 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+676) . . N Managing micro-movements in learning (Created page with "(there must be a better term for this...) * Some math books are good at putting things like "(why?)" to mark non-trivial inferential steps. This is comforting especially at a...")
- 01:32, 15 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+745) . . N Deck options for proof cards (Created page with "Here are my deck options (as of 2020-05-14) for my proof cards decks. New Cards: * Steps: 960 * Order: Show new cards in order added * New cards/day: 1 * Graduating interval...")
- 01:11, 15 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+199) . . N Big card (Created page with "A '''big card''' is an Anki card that takes a long time to review (say, longer than 1 minute). This is in contrast to small cards which can be reviewed in a small amou...")
- 01:00, 15 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1,127) . . N The mathematics community has no clear standards for what a mathematician should know (Created page with "mathematicians suck at communicating the differences between (1) stuff you should work through in detail once, but then forget about it later; (2) stuff you should know super...")
- 00:54, 15 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+749) . . N Discursive texts are difficult to ankify (Created page with "[https://learning.subwiki.org/wiki/Discursiveness_(explanations) Discursive]/meandering texts reference topics outside of the main one, going off in tangents. While this can m...")
- 00:49, 15 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+811) . . N Quotability vs ankifiability (Created page with "Something is '''quotable''' if it is easy to make into a quote. As someone who has [https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Riceissa written] a bunch of Wikiquote...")
- 20:48, 10 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+194) . . N Spoiler test of depth (Created page with "The '''spoiler test of depth''' states that if something can be "spoiled" by spoilers, then it isn't deep, or in other words, that truly deep things cannot be spoiled by givin...")
- 09:50, 6 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+35) . . N WBE (Redirected page to Whole brain emulation) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 05:45, 6 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+79) . . N Discontinuities in whole brain emulation technology (Issa moved page Discontinuities in whole brain emulation technology to Discontinuities in usefulness of whole brain emulation technology) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 05:39, 6 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+770) . . N Discontinuities in usefulness of whole brain emulation technology (Created page with "Even Robin Hanson admits that whole brain emulations would result in a foom-ish/local outcome: """Eliezer: Right. So, in other words, we get a centralized economic shock,...")
- 05:31, 6 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1,021) . . N One wrong number problem (Created page with "The '''one wrong number problem''' has been discussed by Eliezer Yudkowsky in at least two contexts: * To talk about complexity of human values: "But suppose one or more...")
- 01:42, 1 May 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+2,286) . . N 3Blue1Brown (Created page with "Here's my current (April 2020) views on 3Blue1Brown's math videos: * he puts in a lot of effort into the visualizations, so they look pretty. these visualizations are actuall...")
- 18:54, 29 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+111) . . N Architecture (Created page with "What is meant by terms like "mental architecture", "cognitive architecture", the "architecture of the AI", etc?")
- 22:55, 28 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+5,113) . . N Desiderata for dissolving the question (Created page with "* I think when most people think about philosophy topics, they just stop thinking about it once they no longer feel confused? Like, they don't start out with a bunch of deside...")
- 21:28, 28 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+420) . . N Richard Ngo (Created page with "'''Richard Ngo''' is an AI safety research engineer at Google DeepMind.<ref>[https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/users/richard_ngo richard_ngo]. "AI safety research engin...")
- 21:25, 28 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+54) . . N Realism about rationality (Redirected page to Something like realism about rationality) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 21:18, 28 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+2,989) . . N Something like realism about rationality (Created page with " something-like-realism-about-rationality, e.g. "Is there a theory of rationality that is sufficiently precise to build hierarchies of abstraction?" [https://www.greaterwrong....")
- 00:07, 27 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+33) . . N Toby Ord questions (Issa moved page Toby Ord questions to The Precipice notes) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 03:57, 26 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+118) . . N Category:AI safety (Created page with "For pages related to AI safety and alignment. These pages should be moved to a dedicated AI safety wiki at some point.") (current)
- 03:55, 26 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+23) . . N Lumpy (Redirected page to Lumpiness) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 03:54, 26 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+199) . . N Lumpiness (Created page with "'''Lumpiness''' is a term that's often used by Robin Hanson to describe things like innovation, secrets, AI progress, citations. I'm not sure if he came up with this term....")
- 04:13, 25 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1,065) . . N Encoding dependence problem (Created page with "one difficulty i have with anki is for knowledge that is very "encoding-dependent" (there must be a better term for this). e.g. how in arithmetizing logic, each book uses a di...")
- 04:05, 25 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+762) . . N Iteration cadence for spaced repetition experiments (Created page with "expect iteration time of 3-4 months: that's how long it takes to start to really forget things you've read about, which is when you can start to actually see what you retained...")
- 03:49, 25 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+215) . . N Spaced proof review (Created page with "'''Spaced proof review''' is the general idea of trying to memorize/deeply understand a theorem using spaced repetition. This is currently one of my main interests with sp...")
- 03:43, 25 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+885) . . N Reverse side card for everything (Created page with "'''Reverse side card for everything''' is the idea that in Anki, you should never use the basic note type (front->back), that you should instead use a "Basic (and reversed car...")
- 03:35, 25 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+526) . . N One-sentence summary card (Created page with "some blog posts have snappy titles but their content is kinda hard to remember (but you keep seeing them linked or whatever, so it gets annoying if the main idea isn't availab...")
- 03:22, 25 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1,089) . . N Central node trick for remembering equivalent properties (Created page with "a way to memorize characterizations/equivalent properties in math — make them ''all'' related to a single "canonical" property, then make sure you know how to bridge the gap...")
- 03:16, 25 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+670) . . N Distortion of true frequency of piece of knowledge due to spaced repetition (Created page with "does anki distort the "true frequency" of a piece of knowledge? because all cards are reviewed in the same way (uses the same spacing algorithm), you see "less useful" pieces...")
- 03:11, 25 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+45) . . N Spaced repetition (Created page with "For now, see Category:Spaced repetition.")
- 03:10, 25 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+671) . . N Spaced repetition as generator of questions (Created page with "anki as a way to ask questions about things: i quite often have questions about stuff as i'm reviewing on anki. i stop to write these down before continuing. if i hadn't enter...")
- 03:08, 25 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1,041) . . N Spaced proof review as a way to understand key insights in a proof (Created page with " One time I completely forgot the trick for how to even get started proving Löb's theorem. (That's sort of a good thing because I wasn't just relying on a memorized trick!)...")
- 02:59, 25 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+698) . . N Spaced proof review as a way to invent novel proofs (Created page with "one of the great things about proof cards is that when you prove something after months of not seeing it, you sometimes come up with a novel proof! this happened with one of m...")
- 02:48, 25 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+167) . . N Anki deck philosophy (Created page with "I have developed my own philosophy regarding Anki decks, which I think is pretty different from the typical ways in which Anki decks are organized. Category:Anki")
- 02:35, 25 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+297) . . N Incremental reading in Anki (Created page with "'''Incremental reading in Anki''' is not supported by default. There are some plugins for it, but I haven't tried them. My own approach is to add read-only cards (i.e. cards t...")
- 02:33, 25 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+660) . . N Spaced repetition as soft alarm clock (Created page with "Typical alarm clocks are ''hard'' in the sense that they require precisely choosing some future moment in time at which to sound the alarm. Some alarms have a "snooze" button,...")
- 02:28, 25 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+82) . . N Category:Spaced repetition (Created page with "Pages about spaced repetition, which is a broader category than just Anki.") (current)
- 02:28, 25 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+51) . . N Category:Anki (Created page with "Pages about Anki, the spaced repetition system.") (current)
- 02:26, 25 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1,320) . . N Linked list proof card (Created page with "'''Linked list proof card''' is a method of memorizing proofs using Anki. In linked list proof cards, each card asks for the next step in a proof so the cards together form a...")
- 04:26, 24 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+124) . . N Jonathan Blow (Created page with "'''Jonathan Blow''' jonathan blow on his aphantasia: https://youtu.be/tRHnHlV96Jg?t=763 (go back a bit from this timestamp)")
- 20:41, 23 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+109) . . N The Secret of Psalm 46 (Created page with "'''The Secret of Psalm 46''' is a talk by Brian Moriarty. ==See also== * The Secret of Psalm 46 outline")
- 20:39, 23 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+2,662) . . N The Secret of Psalm 46 outline (Created page with " ==Outline== 0:00 Eclipse RadioShack -- free batteries, how people bother to get the free batteries, even though they were crappy; lesson from this Masquerade, easter eggs...")
- 02:14, 23 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+237) . . N People watching (Created page with "'''People watching''', according to me, refers to the art/science/act of observing people, judging them, classifying them, analyzing them, finding them, etc. etc. ==Big pictu...")
- 00:18, 22 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+59) . . N Explorable explanation (Created page with " ==External links== * wikipedia:Explorable explanation")
- 02:11, 20 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+407) . . N Finiteness assumption in explorable media (Created page with "Explorable and interactive media seem to bake in an assumption of finiteness, which makes it challenging to interact with the infinite and arbitrary objects that appear in mat...")
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