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Really thorough statistical analysis of Anki (flashcard app) data

rpubs.com/rain8/1100036 Its a work in progress with only two steps finished. Not exactly an addon because its in R not Py. So far the project does many little things like find bugs in user’s collection, describe the growth of their collection and text mining. Ultimate goal is to hopefully be able to use anki as continuous cognitive tester and allow users to learn about and optimize their memorization process. Instructions to run on your own data : github 

I am not sure data in anki could really be used as a continuous cognitive health test. Probably requires removing lots of artifacts and other influences and then finding outside influence that definitely relates to cognition.  Lit review.

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Vinges Law
rain8dome910d10

This problem inspired VV's 'Zones of Thought' series. In those books the closer a character gets to the center of the galaxy the lower the maximum possible cognition even for an AGI.

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Make More Grayspaces
rain8dome92mo30

The specific word 'greyspaces' makes me think of something like bad architecture  a perspective on morality. Could you call this concept something else like 'intermediary spaces'?

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An Opinionated Guide to Using Anki Correctly
rain8dome92mo10

Thank you that works as desired!

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An Opinionated Guide to Using Anki Correctly
rain8dome92mo10

I have see lots of advice on reddit, here and anki's own forums about to formulate anki cards and use anki in general. Too much in fact. Sometimes its even contradictory. In the end I use some of it but ignored most. Alot of this has to do with the fact that the advice depends on the type of card and on you. If the card is just one word to another to automatize foreign language vocabulary you will want brevity speed fluency and more of these cards per day. If its cloze deletion to memorize a poem / notes card can not be brief and speed is not so important. If its a test like understanding a sentence of a foreign language then it wont go back into review and I do many of these cards irregardless of the count of new cards. I also suspect it depends on the user though I have not really had enough data to give examples. To further all of this including finding the right advice for each person, I have written some part of an analysis of anki data. Unfortunately not many people seem to care so I stopped. Please run this R notebook on your data.

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An Opinionated Guide to Using Anki Correctly
rain8dome92mo10

Please give an example of JavaScript code that would make a minor wording tweak. I often find I need to not memorize the cue so precisely.

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A case for courage, when speaking of AI danger
rain8dome92mo10

Why Mark Ruffalo? Will there be an audiobook? Edit: Yes; it can be preordered now.

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X explains Z% of the variance in Y
rain8dome93mo10

"Random variable" is never defined. I though stochastic variable is just a synonym for random variable. I have seen posts where random variable is always written as r.v. and that helps a bit.

From Wikipedia: "In probability theory, the sample space (also called sample description space,[1] possibility space,[2] or outcome space[3]) of an experiment or random trial is the set of all possible outcomes or results of that experiment.

what is a measurable space?

"he function X is constant," you mean its just one outcome like a die that always lands on one side?

what makes a function measurable? 

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X explains Z% of the variance in Y
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random variables

 

This term always sounds like it means a variable selected at random not a variable with randomness in it. Please use the term 'stochastic variable'.  Edit: or does it mean a variable composed entirely at random without any relation to any other variable?

 

Edit: I think this post would be much easier to learn from if it was a jupyter notebook with python code intermixed or R markdown. Sometimes the terminology gets away from me and seeing in code what is being said would really help understand what is going on as well as give some training on how to use this knowledge.  Edit: there should be a plot illustrating " which are jointly sampled according to a density p(x,y)." including rugs for the marginal distributions. I could do that if anyone wants. Here is an example describing a different concept.

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Futarchy's fundamental flaw
rain8dome93mo20

The best use of prediction markets is for decision makers to prove their competence.  Or as Lizka suggests to advise voting public.

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