ebisu
Pentive
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0.0 | 9.7 | |
4 months ago | 6 days ago | |
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The Unlicense | Apache License 2.0 |
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ebisu
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Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards
I really wish something like https://github.com/fasiha/ebisu becomes the norm. That is, the idea of fitting the cards to your time (by prioritising) rather than you having to do everything there software wants.
The only bit missing is some algorithm deciding how often to introduce new cards based on your historical data.
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FSRS: A modern, efficient spaced repetition algorithm
It seems from the description that FSRS still puts an exact review date on each card? This feature was pretty much the reason why I stopped using Anki. I'm not in college and not doing exams, I just want to practice when I feel like it, maybe with large breaks between sessions, and not feel like there's a backlog building up.
I think Anki is a great app, I just wish there was an algorithm that would just randomly sample cards (with probability proportional to how urgently you need to review it) rather than put a review date on them. Something like https://github.com/fasiha/ebisu but available as an Anki plugin (if that supports custom algorithms on mobile yet?) or a similar app with an open format for cards.
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Study Sets: The reason why cards repeat a lot (algorithm explanation)
"GoodNotes uses the Ebisu algorithm for its spaced repetition feature. Ebisu uses a Bayesian model to estimate the probability of remembering a given flashcard, which allows faster adaptation to changes in recall ability. Both algorithms have been shown to be effective in practice, you can learn more about Ebisu at https://fasiha.github.io/ebisu/ "
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Am I using Anki wrong?
This is a fundamental issue with SM-2 and how ease factors work. I personally have my Anki settings set up such that there is no ease factor penalty, though I will be working on porting Ebisu v3 to Anki's v3 scheduler once it's ready, which should finally allow us to have proper adaptive ease factors for cards (on all platforms) without the ease hell problem.
Pentive
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Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards
> I wonder what the ecosystem would look like if things were otherwise.
Shameless plug - I'm building https://github.com/AlexErrant/Pentive which is basically GitHub/Reddit for flashcards. Very much pre-product and a WIP, though the offline client proof of concept is done.
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Lessons from building GitHub code search [video]
I also enjoyed the Treesitter talk from 5 years ago by Max Brunsfeld https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jes3bD6P0To
I'm currently building a query language whose grammar is very much inspired by Github's search syntax. I'm using Lezer, which is a GLR like Treesitter, so this talk learned me some parser generators (I've no formal CS education). Here's my grammar, a playground, and an example search query if anyone wants to play with it
https://github.com/AlexErrant/Pentive/blob/main/app/src/quer...
https://littletools.app/lezer
-(a) spider-man -a b -c -"(quote\\"d) str" OR "l o l" OR a b c ((a "c") b) tag:what -deck:"x y"
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Using spaced repetition systems to see through a piece of mathematics
Not really. There are options for sharing cards on Anki https://www.reddit.com/r/Anki/comments/14j2jfy/deck_sharing_... but their collaboration features are limited.
I myself am building an Anki clone https://github.com/AlexErrant/Pentive with collaboration built in as a first class citizen, though its far from primetime. Currently stewing on how to get the SR algorithm, FSRS, to compile to wasm.
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Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
https://github.com/AlexErrant/Pentive
A free, open source, local-first, spaced repetition system that works offline, has p2p syncing, plugins, and first class support for collaboration. It's GitHub/Reddit for flashcards.
I basically took Anki and turned it into a webapp >_>
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Things you forgot because of React
I find Solid's model pretty damn close to "compiling down to nothing". I chose Solid for my project because I wanted to support plugins that used other UI frameworks. I recently got a Svelte plugin working with the SolidJS router. I could probably make it prettier... but it's literally a call to Solid's `createComponent` with the Router and an anchoring div to which the Svelte component is mounted. Ezpz.
https://github.com/AlexErrant/Pentive/blob/main/example-plug...
- Mycelite: SQLite extension to synchronize changes across SQLite instances
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An open source web-based flashcard studying system
I'm also building an Anki clone (sigh) that I'm calling "Github for flashcards".
>A free, open source, local-first, spaced repetition system that works offline, has p2p syncing, plugins, and first class support for collaboration.
https://github.com/AlexErrant/Pentive
Very much a WIP, completely unusable, but I recently made a video demoing the technical proof of concept.
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Anki-Fy Your Life
Anki, imo, already has an open algorithm (that the user can change via plugins), universal interfaces, and is "self-hosted". My eyes perked up at REST api, but it doesn't look like there's a centralized server that hosts shared cards, which is where my mind went.
I'm building https://github.com/AlexErrant/Pentive/ which is basically Anki + Reddit - people can optionally upload their cards for others to download, and the most popular cards rise to the top. It's FLOSS, offline-first, supports plugins and p2p syncing, and is very much a WIP. My proof of concept is almost done though, which demos the critical technologies in a secure way.
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A Gentle Introduction to CRDTs
I'm using cr-sqlite right now in my Anki clone: https://github.com/AlexErrant/Pentive
It's basically an offline-first flashcard webapp. CR-Sqlite allows for incremental syncing.
With Anki (the app from which I'm taking my inspiration), syncing is _not_ incremental - basically it just copies SQLite files around. So for example, the app could be on an iPhone with cards a card `A` reviewed, but the app on an iPad could make changes to the template on which card `A` is based, and that's enough to cause a conflict - you must take changes from only the iPad or only the iPhone. (To be clear - Anki does have some incremental syncing capabilities - I'm picking an intentionally pathological example.) CR-SQLite will mean that everything is incremental, however.
Basically makes 3 way merges a breeze (or n-way merges, really).
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Ask HN: What Are You Working on This Year?
A FLOSS, offline-first, spaced repetition system that has first class support for collaboration, curation, and plugins. It's Reddit for flashcards.
https://github.com/AlexErrant/Pentive
I've been thinking about this for a stupid amount of time... thinking that someday someone's going to improve on Anki. Finally got tired of it and said that person's me.
What are some alternatives?
ent.hpp - A header-only library that applies various tests to sequences of bytes stored in files and reports the results of those tests. The class is useful for evaluating pseudorandom number generators for encryption and statistical sampling applications, compression algorithms, and other applications where the information density of a file is of interest.
fsrs4anki - A modern Anki custom scheduling based on Free Spaced Repetition Scheduler algorithm
dekki - An ML based spaced repetition algorithm to help you learn faster and remember longer.
mycelite - Mycelite is a SQLite extension that allows you to synchronize changes from one instance of SQLite to another.
option-pricer - Option pricing using Black-Scholes model, Bachelier model, Binomial Trees and Monte Carlo simulation under different stochastic processes
proposal-shadowrealm - ECMAScript Proposal, specs, and reference implementation for Realms
Midnight - Midnight Score Probabilities using a Monte Carlo Simulation
shellrunner - Write safe shell scripts in Python.
monaco - Quantify uncertainty and sensitivities in your computer models with an industry-grade Monte Carlo library.
vm2-process - Execute unsafe javascript code in a sandbox
LearningCards - Simple collaborative online version of learning/flash cards
ankivalenz - Turn HTML files into Anki decks