Using spaced repetition systems to see through a piece of mathematics

Re:Using spaced repetition systems to see through a piece of... by michael_nielsen on Sunday January 13, 2019 @04:22AM (#18895896)

Glad you enjoyed the essays. On LaTeX - I sometimes cut-and-paste screenshots, but usually just write raw LaTeX or pseudo-LaTeX (i.e., something LaTeX-like that wouldn't compile, but is easier to read). It'd be much, much better to use some kind of plugin that turned it into images, but I've been too lazy to try.

This has, incidentally, made many of my matrix-based Anki cards rather ugly. I'll probably update a bunch of answers with cut-and-paste from this essay.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but it's pretty bad I'm using raw LaTeX in this way - I'm sure it hurts my understanding! On the other hand, I've written so much LaTeX over the years that reading it seems really natural.

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Re:Using spaced repetition systems to see through a piece of... by yorwba on Sunday January 13, 2019 @04:50AM (#18895958)

You wouldn't even need la plugin. Anki supports [latex][/latex] out of the box, provided you install LaTeX in a way that Anki can find it.

https://apps.ankiweb.net/docs/manual.html#latex-support

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Re:Using spaced repetition systems to see through a piece of... by sbmassey on Sunday January 13, 2019 @06:42AM (#18896277)

Anki also supports Mathjax natively, so you can put the latex-ish code between a \(\) or \[\] and you don't need the image file step.

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Re:Using spaced repetition systems to see through a piece of... by philip-b on Sunday January 13, 2019 @10:09AM (#18896927)

I think it doesn't work in Android version

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Re:Using spaced repetition systems to see through a piece of... by jw_mc on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @11:50PM (#18918302)

I have this at the bottom of my card templates. Works on desktop and Android: https://pastebin.com/uqUrJBdZ

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Re:Using spaced repetition systems to see through a piece of... by jammygit on Monday January 14, 2019 @07:13PM (#18907830)

I write my cards on Linux, review on Linux and android. The latex support is definitely helpful, but yeah, you need to 'render' it on desktop to get the images

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Re:Using spaced repetition systems to see through a piece of... by branweb on Sunday January 13, 2019 @04:15PM (#18898726)

Thanks for following up. It's definitely a hard problem to solve. I've considered just writing whatever expression I want to learn on an ipad with an apple pencil, then figuring out some nice way to pipe that into my SRS.

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