Anki decks by LW users

Why does the 100 Greatest Paintings of All Time deck have only 99 notes?

benthamite, have you had success using decks you have not built yourself?

I once tried with the list of cognitive biases, and again with german and it was an atrocious experience. I thought then that I was violating rule 2:

"Learn before you memorize Before you proceed with memorizing individual facts and rules, you need to build an overall picture of the learned knowledge. Only when individual pieces fit to build a single coherent structure, will you be able to dramatically reduce the learning time. This is closely related to the problem comprehension mentioned in Rule 1: Do not learn if you do not understand. A single separated piece of your picture is like a single German word in the textbook of history.

Do not start from memorizing loosely related facts! First read a chapter in your book that puts them together (e.g. the principles of the internal combustion engine). Only then proceed with learning using individual questions and answers (e.g. What moves the pistons in the internal combustion engine?), etc."

Maybe it is possible to study the material by yourself first and then use someone else's deck - experience will tell, for me it doesn't work. Then again I can imagine that different people build different models of the same information and thus require different cards.

If you had success (or not) using other's people decks please reply (also mention which subject - I predict something like multiplication tables or such that is just "hard memorizing" and little understanding is easier)

There seem to be a lot of errors in the 100 greatest paintings deck. Some of the cards have names and pictures mismatched, some have an entirely wrong picture (Google image search says the one for "Rubens: Fall of the Damned" is actually "Hell" by Dirk Bouts, the "Rinaldo e Armida" one seems to be by François Boucher, not Van Eyck, Goya's Asmodea is actually a photograph of this guy), and a lot of the paintings that have established English names are listed with a foreign name that's annoying to memorize. Also what's the deal with this Last Supper image? It doesn't look like the Wikipedia reference.

EDIT: I put my fixed version up at AnkiWeb, feel free to use for updating the original. EDIT2: Updated description and link.

I've got a 12,000+ note deck (over 80% of which I created myself), but for most of it I don't have any particular reason for thinking other Less Wrongers would be interested (Middle Ages, Japanese, Religion, etc...) and some of it is quite personal. Although, I am working on a liberal arts (Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric, Arithmetic, Geometry, Music Theory, and Astronomy) deck that is intended for consumption by people-other-than-me (specifically my son, when he is of appropriate age), but I'm not quite finished with it yet.

Here is my "general" medicine deck, mostly vocab and roots: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/130158459

Here is my psychology deck, which includes cognitive biases (about half of the list I posted here; I'm still planning to make the rest), some personality psyc, and also a few taken and modified from Divia and Alex: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/798225764

Here is my math deck, mostly vocab, with some graph theory: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/952249083

Here is my statistics deck, mostly vocab, with quite a bit of notes on probability distributions (basically my idea from here): https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/2626280898

If you only want part of the deck, it's really easy to create that, just browse and filter by tag:DSTN (or something) and get rid of the rest.

I generally agree it's better to make your own, but think you can learn how to make them and take specific notes from others.

Gwern used to have his main deck available for download here, though I can't find it anymore (and didn't look that hard). I took some things from body language and vocab from it, although there was a lot of cultural stuff I was uninterested in.

Most of my decks are pretty specific to idiosyncratic courses I've done and I don't feel they'd be useful to others. These ones might be a bit more generally applicable if you're interested in the area:

Advanced psychological statistics - mainly about various kinds of modelling approaches and meta-analysis.

Quantitative and qualitative research methods - fairly basic research methods stuff

Functional neuroanatomy and neuroscience methods - basic stuff about various imaging techniques, a little bit of psychopharmacology

Added:

• Ear Training (chords), by Pablo_Stafforini. Contains sound samples of about 40 of the most common chords, in root position.

Does anyone have the Lucid Dreaming and Psychedelic Experiences decks? Divia's linked hosting has vanished. This also took down the linked Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions, Human's Guide to Words, and Dealing With Police.

Some of those links uses the deprecated .anki file format. Import .anki files is an add-on I created for a Less Wronger, that will allow you to import those old decks

Quick Bayes Table, by alexvermeer. A simple deck of cards for internalizing conversions between percent, odds, and decibels of evidence.

link broken

Could this be put on a main wiki page of 'rationalist resources', where rationality materials can be searched for (e.g. along with Lukeprog's best textbooks and other resources pages)?

I have a set of Mnemosyne decks - is it easy to convert between the two formats?

This link is also broken: General math, by Andy_McKenzie.

The link to 'Rationality Habits Checklist, by Qiaochu_Yuan' is broken. Qiaochu_Yuan, any updates?

It appears that all the links by divia are no longer available.

Added:

• David Burns's The Feeling Good Handbook, by Pablo_Stafforini.

I can't access Mysterious Answers deck. Does anyone have a non-Posterous copy of this please?

Last time I tried using SRS I got annoyed having to edit my deck through the Anki interface. I want to live in Vim when I edit large quantities of texty stuff, not poke through a GUI that's different for every application.

So what options have I got? Googling attempts get me people trying to learn Vim with SRS, not people doing SRS with Vim. Anki has a text export and I could probably rig it up to an export-edit-import cycle without that much fuss. But the text export doesn't carry repetition data, and I worry about that being lost in the process. Though Anki did seem to be able to update the deck with an import of an exported and edited file instead of just remaking everything from scratch.

Emacs has org-drill, but it feels sorta kludgy and it's Emacs-only.

Rolling my own might be an option, I can just crib the algorithm from somewhere and the rest of the application logic isn't terribly complicated. I'm envisioning something like a text file for the deck where the cards are set up using some sort of lightweight markup, and repetition data is stored in base64 blobs on special lines and updated by the SRS app when it operates on the file. Could also have the app maintain a separate database with hashes of card contents as keys (this would zap a card from the db whenever it's edited, but then again you might often want to refresh things after an edit) and keep the actual card text file immutable.

Displaying LaTeX or images would be tricky if I wanted to be old-school and run this on command line. Could also make a web app run the thing.

I can't access

A Human's Guide to Words, by divia

Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions, by divia.

Any math stuff? I know you've got 'em.

Well, if anyone's looking for AQA GCSE Science and Additional Science anki decks, feel free to message me.