This section of the site contains shorter, concept-oriented notes that I refer to often in my other work. Some of the concepts are people. I might move the people out into their own section at some point.
Most of these exist in my SuperMemo collection as concepts.
ΒΆ A
ΒΆ Alexis
- Alexis: Mastermind behind SuperMemoAssistant.
ΒΆ Analogy
- Analogy: The core of cognititon?
ΒΆ Andy Matushak
- Andy Matuschak: Main developer behind [Orbit]. He has written a bunch about spaced repetition in his notes. I interviewed him back in October 2020.
ΒΆ Anki
ΒΆ Anti-Institution
- Anti-Institution: The inverse of a traditional institution. Decentralized and non-hierarchical.
ΒΆ B
ΒΆ C
ΒΆ Convex Tinkering
- Convex Tinkering: Knowledge seekers must search in a way that minimizes risk and maximizes payoffs!
ΒΆ Creative Induction
- [Creative Induction]: Interesting concept from Colonel Boyd.
ΒΆ Credentialism
- Credentialism: Valuing credentials over skills.
ΒΆ D
ΒΆ Dendro
- Dendro: New incremental reading system created by George Zonnios.
ΒΆ Decentralization
- [Decentralization]
ΒΆ Deschooling Society
- [Deschooling Society]: Book published in 1971 by Ivan Illich.
ΒΆ Designed Serendipity
- [Designed Serendipity] : Concept from michael nielsen
ΒΆ Destructive Deduction
- [Destructive Deduction]: Interesting concept from Colonel Boyd.
ΒΆ Diary of a Madman
- [Diary of a Madman]: Classic short story by [Lu Xun] (1918).
ΒΆ Disintermediation
- [Disintermediation]
ΒΆ E
ΒΆ Explore vs Exploit
- Explore vs Exploit: Should you spend time gathering more knowledge, or use the knowledge you already have to gain value.
ΒΆ F
ΒΆ Fowl
- Fowl: Italian man. Running the largest SRS experiment in history.
ΒΆ G
- George Hotz: Reverse Engineer. Now working on self-driving cards at Comma AI.
ΒΆ H
ΒΆ I
ΒΆ Independent Research
- Independent Research: Do research without institutional affiliation.
ΒΆ Issa Rice
ΒΆ Ivan Illich
- Ivan Illich: Wrote [Deschooling Society] (1971) in which he proposed learning networks as an alternative to the traditional education system.
ΒΆ J
ΒΆ K
ΒΆ L
ΒΆ Learning Networks
- Learning Networks: Ivan Illich's deinstitutionalized alternative to the traditional education system.
ΒΆ Local vs Global Optimization
- [Local vs Global Optimization]:
ΒΆ Lu Xun
- [Lu Xun (ι―θΏ )] : Chinese writer. Incisive in his societal commentary. Wrote [Diary of a Madman] in 1918.
ΒΆ M
ΒΆ Martin Shkreli
- Martin Shkreli: Finance guy whose streams and lectures got me interested in free learning.
ΒΆ Matt Nielsen
- Matt Nielsen: Ex biblical scholar now learning programming.
ΒΆ Michael Nielsen
- Michael Nielsen: Quantum physicist who worked on Quantum Country with Andy Matuschak.
ΒΆ Monopoly of School
- [Monopoly of School]: Schooled societies see school as the sole channel through which education may be delivered.
ΒΆ N
ΒΆ Naess
- Naess: Free learner, self-educator, professional connection maker, Finnish man.
ΒΆ O
- Orbit: New SRS being developed by Andy Matuschak.
ΒΆ P
ΒΆ Paul Raymond-Robichaud
- Paul Raymond-Robichaud: Quebecois quantum physicist who using SRS for mathematics and Stoicism for over 6 years.
ΒΆ Peer Matching
- [Peer Matching]: Illich's proposal to [disintermediate] the university matchmaking system.
ΒΆ Piotr Wozniak
- Piotr Wozniak: Inventor of the first spaced repetition algorithm. Creator of SuperMemo. Critic of the traditional education system. Advocate of free learning.
ΒΆ Public Learning
- Public Learning: Learning in public. Learning with the garage door up.
ΒΆ Q
ΒΆ R
ΒΆ Raj
- Raj: Has tutored over 1000 people in using SuperMemo. Is doing public learning.
ΒΆ S
ΒΆ Semantic Distance
- [Semantic Distance]: How far away you are from understanding something.
ΒΆ SuperMemo
- SuperMemo: The best SRS in the multiverse.
ΒΆ SuperMemoAssistant (SMA)
- SuperMemoAssistant (SMA): Plugin framework for SuperMemo built by Alexis.
ΒΆ SuperMemo.Wiki Discord
- SuperMemo.Wiki Discord: Where the cool SRS kids hang out.
ΒΆ Surrogation
- [Surrogation]: When a measure of a construct of interest evolves to replace the construct itself.
ΒΆ T
ΒΆ Traditional Institution
- Traditional Institution: Tend to be hierarchical. See: Traditional education system.
ΒΆ U
ΒΆ V
ΒΆ W
ΒΆ Well-schooled Student
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[Web of Peers]: Ivan Illich
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Well-schooled Student: Someone who embodies the bad habits given by the school system.
ΒΆ X
ΒΆ Y
ΒΆ Z
ΒΆ Zander
- Zander: Magnificent Californian and co-host on world's greatest SRS podcast.