> I wish there were dynamic SRS decks for language learning (or other disciplines). Such decks would count the number of times you have reviewed an instance of an underlying grammatical rule or an instance of a particular piece of vocabulary, for example its singular/plural/third person conjugation/dative form. These sophisticated decks would present users with fresh example sentences on every review, thereby preventing users from remembering specific answers and compelling them to learn the process of applying the grammatical rule afresh. Moreover, these decks would keep users entertained through novelty and would present users with tacit learning opportunities through rotating vocabulary used in non-essential parts of the example sentence. Such a system, with multiple-level review rotation, would not only prevent against overfitted learning, but also increase the total amount of knowledge learned per minute, an efficiency I’d gladly invest in.
Exactly this is my side-project at the moment. Hopefully it will show up on "Show HN" in a year or two.
I'm an auto-didactic. I dropped out of HS and taught myself everything I know by reading books. I have never subscribed to a system of note taking. I guess all I ever did was relate problem spaces in my head. This problem is an analog of that problem with separate variations. Perhaps that is an extreme oversimplification.
Thanks, I didn't notice the spelling error. Honestly the reason I dropped out of high school was undiagnosed dyslexia and dysgraphia. It makes me so excited when someone is willing to show me that I spelled something wrong and then call me a fool. You know. Because ability to spell is far more important than the fact that I've forgotten more about Linux than most system administrators will ever know, or that I can program in over 10 languages and am familiar with DDD, CRQS, SOLID among other design patterns. I've mentored over 50 developers, and made Principal Engineer before I turned 35 despite my lack of credentials. I worked my way up from Help Desk to PC Support to, Network Admin, to System Admin before becoming a Software Engineer. But, nah, I'm a fool because I've misspelled a word. Thank you kind stranger for pointing out my limits, it gives me an incredible sense of frisson to know people like you are out there to keep us all in check.
"Autodidactic" is the adjective, "autodidact" the corresponding noun. As you know, in English we often like to leave the noun merely implied, letting the adjective alone fill in for the noun phrase. Still, the term "autodidact" being shorter than the adjective gives it an unusual appeal. I like to imagine that readers other than yourself may welcome the suggestion.
Each of us knows a negligible part of what is known, which is itself truly negligible compared to what is yet to be known. Most of us are overwhelmed just pruning away what we thought we knew that has turned out not to be so. Don't trust anyone who is not.
My real reason for posting was to make a place to write the translation I like better.
Bullshit. You might not know me but I've seen your face 100 times my friend. I recognized you the moment you left your comment. You are every English teacher I've ever had and their knee-hugging clingy mouth breathing teacher's pets. Those lick spittle hanger's on that can't who can't be bothered to reach out a helping hand because they are choking on their own schadenfreude after watching the stupid kid crash and burn in verbal drive by that left them brain dead and panting on the floor. I know a sideways remark when I see one.
I am aware that '"Autodidactic" is the adjective, "autodidact" the corresponding noun.' What you seem to be unaware of is how dyslexia effects reading. Everyone has a blind spot, an optical illusion generated by your brain by filling in information that's not there. When I'm reading something that I've written, words get swapped in from what I expect to be there versus what I've actually written. This also happens when I am constructing a sentence. As I am typing I am simultaneously constructing and deconstructing sentences in my head. Sometimes I will start with one sentence and while thinking of the next sentence drop writing the existing one and start with the new one instead. When I read that back to myself my brain, like a blindspot, fills in my mind with my expectation of what I think I should see instead of the information that what I wrote is actually nonsense.
Every English teacher I've had would just dunk my head under the water instead of recognizing that I was struggling to breath and everyone in the class would laugh, all except the other people that got wet. I know you, you've been dry all your life. Never got dunked, never had your water drenched eyes deceive you. So you can parrot back your bullshit you learned in school, I don't fucking care. All I did was see a red squiggly under my words and select the first auto correct option, I left it as it was because I couldn't see that I selected the wrong one. It took me years to learn how to work around my disability, I don't need an asshole like you to point it out to me and then give me a sideways quote calling me a fool.
In case anyone is interested, the German original runs: "Da steh' ich nun, ich armer Tor, und bin so klug als wie zuvor!"
I.e. in the German original Faust is standing whereas he is sitting in the English translation. And yes, Tor in this context refers to Thor, not a goal.
I don't think I consider myself especially knowledgeable about anything outside of algebra, and general IT. I have hobbyist interests in other sciences: evolutionary biology, chemistry, high energy physics, astronomy, cosmology, geology, philosophy, among others but I don't consider myself especially knowledgeable about them.
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[ 2.1 ms ] story [ 40.1 ms ] threadExactly this is my side-project at the moment. Hopefully it will show up on "Show HN" in a year or two.
A better translation of the last sentence from Goethe runs "Here I sit, for all my lore, the wretched fool I was before."
Thanks, I didn't notice the spelling error. Honestly the reason I dropped out of high school was undiagnosed dyslexia and dysgraphia. It makes me so excited when someone is willing to show me that I spelled something wrong and then call me a fool. You know. Because ability to spell is far more important than the fact that I've forgotten more about Linux than most system administrators will ever know, or that I can program in over 10 languages and am familiar with DDD, CRQS, SOLID among other design patterns. I've mentored over 50 developers, and made Principal Engineer before I turned 35 despite my lack of credentials. I worked my way up from Help Desk to PC Support to, Network Admin, to System Admin before becoming a Software Engineer. But, nah, I'm a fool because I've misspelled a word. Thank you kind stranger for pointing out my limits, it gives me an incredible sense of frisson to know people like you are out there to keep us all in check.
"Autodidactic" is the adjective, "autodidact" the corresponding noun. As you know, in English we often like to leave the noun merely implied, letting the adjective alone fill in for the noun phrase. Still, the term "autodidact" being shorter than the adjective gives it an unusual appeal. I like to imagine that readers other than yourself may welcome the suggestion.
Each of us knows a negligible part of what is known, which is itself truly negligible compared to what is yet to be known. Most of us are overwhelmed just pruning away what we thought we knew that has turned out not to be so. Don't trust anyone who is not.
My real reason for posting was to make a place to write the translation I like better.
I am aware that '"Autodidactic" is the adjective, "autodidact" the corresponding noun.' What you seem to be unaware of is how dyslexia effects reading. Everyone has a blind spot, an optical illusion generated by your brain by filling in information that's not there. When I'm reading something that I've written, words get swapped in from what I expect to be there versus what I've actually written. This also happens when I am constructing a sentence. As I am typing I am simultaneously constructing and deconstructing sentences in my head. Sometimes I will start with one sentence and while thinking of the next sentence drop writing the existing one and start with the new one instead. When I read that back to myself my brain, like a blindspot, fills in my mind with my expectation of what I think I should see instead of the information that what I wrote is actually nonsense.
Every English teacher I've had would just dunk my head under the water instead of recognizing that I was struggling to breath and everyone in the class would laugh, all except the other people that got wet. I know you, you've been dry all your life. Never got dunked, never had your water drenched eyes deceive you. So you can parrot back your bullshit you learned in school, I don't fucking care. All I did was see a red squiggly under my words and select the first auto correct option, I left it as it was because I couldn't see that I selected the wrong one. It took me years to learn how to work around my disability, I don't need an asshole like you to point it out to me and then give me a sideways quote calling me a fool.
I.e. in the German original Faust is standing whereas he is sitting in the English translation. And yes, Tor in this context refers to Thor, not a goal.