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Do you ever go to a lecture, follow it thinking it makes total sense, then look back at your notes later and realize it makes no sense? This used to happen to me, but I’ve learned how to use spaced repetition to fully avoid this if I want. I’m going to try to convey this method in this post.

Much of my understanding of how to create flashcards comes from “Using spaced repetition systems to see through a piece of mathematics” by Michael Nielsen and “How to write good prompts: using spaced repetition to create understanding” by Andy Matuschak, but I think my method falls in between both, in terms of abstraction. Finally, I want to credit Quantum Country for being an amazing example of flashcards created to develop intuition in users.

My method is more abstract than Michael Nielsen's approach, since it does not [...]

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Outline:

(01:23) Minimize Inferential Distance on Flashcards

(02:25) Understanding Attention

(03:38) Examples

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First published:
May 12th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gwavKiKXf97NLNC2n/building-intuition-with-spaced-repetition-systems

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

“Building intuition with spaced repetition systems” by Jacob G-W

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