I am resuming my use of Anki; among other things, I suspect it will be a better use of my away-from-home downtime than Triple Town.
Unfortunately, the reason I stopped using Anki before was because I learned things faster than I added them- and so very quickly it would be weeks between reviews, and I would get out of the habit of reviewing, and then I would remember about it a year later.
The deck I have now (which I need to stick to for classes) is one of Laplace transforms, but I’d like more suggestions. Another one that’s coming to mind is that I’m reading a lot of scientific literature now for my new research project, and it may be helpful to attach faces to all the names. There aren’t enough of those to take me longer than a week, though. I also started memorizing the Periodic Table years ago, and could resume that, but that one always seemed a bit artificial / it was hard to keep caring through the Lanthanides.
I’ve been using it to memorise useful mathematical formulae like trig identities and integrals. Obviously rote learning mathematics can be harmful, but there are some formulae (like the one for tan(A+B)) that come up often enough to be useful but not often enough for me to have memorised them automatically. This is the sweet spot for spaced repetition.
Also, remembering people’s birthdays seems like a good use of Anki.
I considered a table of integrals too, but it’s rare that I come across an integral these days that I should be doing rather than handing off to Mathematica (or it’s a specialized one like a Laplace transform). The birthdays idea is a good one, but Google Calendar does that for me far more effectively.
I might want to do one for the names of prominent theorems, though. Then I’ll be able to just say “the Cayley Hamilton theorem” instead of “you can express any function of a matrix as a combination of N-1 powers of that matrix.”
I am resuming my use of Anki; among other things, I suspect it will be a better use of my away-from-home downtime than Triple Town.
Unfortunately, the reason I stopped using Anki before was because I learned things faster than I added them- and so very quickly it would be weeks between reviews, and I would get out of the habit of reviewing, and then I would remember about it a year later.
The deck I have now (which I need to stick to for classes) is one of Laplace transforms, but I’d like more suggestions. Another one that’s coming to mind is that I’m reading a lot of scientific literature now for my new research project, and it may be helpful to attach faces to all the names. There aren’t enough of those to take me longer than a week, though. I also started memorizing the Periodic Table years ago, and could resume that, but that one always seemed a bit artificial / it was hard to keep caring through the Lanthanides.
I’ve been using it to memorise useful mathematical formulae like trig identities and integrals. Obviously rote learning mathematics can be harmful, but there are some formulae (like the one for tan(A+B)) that come up often enough to be useful but not often enough for me to have memorised them automatically. This is the sweet spot for spaced repetition.
Also, remembering people’s birthdays seems like a good use of Anki.
I considered a table of integrals too, but it’s rare that I come across an integral these days that I should be doing rather than handing off to Mathematica (or it’s a specialized one like a Laplace transform). The birthdays idea is a good one, but Google Calendar does that for me far more effectively.
I might want to do one for the names of prominent theorems, though. Then I’ll be able to just say “the Cayley Hamilton theorem” instead of “you can express any function of a matrix as a combination of N-1 powers of that matrix.”