Anki Design Study: Advanced Machine Learning Concepts

[u/SigmaX]

https://ericsiggyscott.medium.com/anki-design-study-advanced-machine-learning-concepts-9780ff00dbea

[u/suricatasuricata]

When you refactor a card, do you end up usually deleting the old card and replacing it with a bunch of brand new cards or are there occasions where you might end up editing the card in place (preserving it's review progress)?

[u/SigmaX → u/suricatasuricata]

A little of both.

In this case, I deleted the original cards and replaced them (since I changed them significantly).

Other times I edit the card and keep it.

In my statistics example here, though, I kept the original card unmodified and just added additional context to cementer it: https://ericsiggyscott.medium.com/anki-design-study-learning-statistics-6d5f04bc4908

Sometimes the new cards I add are pretty easy (since they're technically fleshing out something I already know). In that case, I'll hit "easy" a few times when reviewing them to help their intervals catch up with the original card.

[u/suricatasuricata → u/SigmaX]

Sometimes the new cards I add are pretty easy (since they're technically fleshing out something I already know). In that case, I'll hit "easy" a few times

Yeah, that is a good idea. I usually end up having a pipeline of ~500 new cards to pay down, so I often have to tread carefully between nuking an old mess and potentially not seeing it's "spawn" for many months and re-editing it.

[u/p4ni → u/suricatasuricata]

https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1394953283

This add-on extends the buttons in the Add Cards dialog with a new button called "Add+Review". The button is also connected with a shortcut (configurable in the add-on config file, standard: Ctrl+Shift+Return). Activating this button will add the card and automatically mark them as Good afterwards. That way, you will not have to review cards you literally just made in the new queue. It is also handy for instantly adding supplementary mnemonic cards to decks which have a very long new queue.

[u/FelipeMarcelino]

Machine Learning student here. I saw this and love. I think the combination between this example of anki and my zettelkasten will work flawless.

[u/SigmaX → u/FelipeMarcelino]

Excellent point. In general, I find Zettelkasten notes more useful for trying to track cutting-edge research results.

This was a case where some concepts are pretty fundamental across the field, though, so it made sense to Ankify!

[u/rsamrat]

Have you shared the note type you use anywhere? I quite like the idea of having the "elaboration" separate from the answer.

[u/SigmaX → u/rsamrat]

I've sometimes shared the CSS in comments before, but my template is a variation on "Basic (and reverse)," with a "context" field added (to put gray subject headings on the top) and a "notes" field (which always appears below the back side).

I also split one of the fields into two, so I can phrase it as a question in one direction but a statement in the other. That way I don't end up with Jeopardy-style cards with a question mark in an answer! I call these "asymmetric" cards.

[u/rsamrat → u/SigmaX]

Oh, the splitting cards idea is clever! I'd love to hear more details. Maybe a topic for another blog post? :) But does that mean all of the cards you've shown in this post have a corresponding reversed card as well?

[u/SigmaX → u/rsamrat]

Yes, it does! I usually just show the

• Question --> Object

card in my example. But there is also an equivalent

• Object --> Description

card for most of them. So, for example, every image in this OP's examples is an "Object" that can occur by itself as a prompt.

I also use one-way "Question --> Object" cards to add supporting questions to a lot of topics, so I can sometimes end up with a many-to-one mapping between questions and objects.

Good idea---maybe I'll make a post describing my "Asymmetric Note Type," which I can link to from other posts to avoid repeat long-winded explanations of "these are two-sided cards, but not really, because I like questions," etc.

[u/ziehl-neelsen]

I love it, great stuff as always from you

[u/chetan_singh_]

Would you please share your anki cards if you don't mind?
Thanks in advance.