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Re:How to write good prompts: using spaced repetition to cre... by porknubbins on Thursday December 31, 2020 @10:24PM (#25600546)
Prompts is a piece of jargon, unfortunately confusing but crucial to anyone trying to memorize anything using an SRS. A prompt could take the form “What is a X” or be a blank “the dog ____ over the log” or just be a foreign word like 中国. So in some ways its a more general concept than a “question” but calling it the front side of a flashcard is probably clearer.
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Re:How to write good prompts: using spaced repetition to cre... by dxdm on Thursday December 31, 2020 @11:30PM (#25600868)
After checking the Wikipedia disambiguation page, I'm assuming that SRS means Spaced Repetition Software here?

Clicking through to the next article, "spaced repetition" itself seems to be a flash card based learning technique.

I wish more people would define the uncommon abbreviations and terms they use for the convenience of their readers.

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Re:How to write good prompts: using spaced repetition to cre... by rablackburn on Friday January 01, 2021 @01:21AM (#25601325)
The problem is always forgetting what is uncommon jargon and what your readers probably already know. We all have our bubbles (tech folk notoriously so).

Ironically the solution already exists but no one uses it because of the editorial overhead: hyperlinking text to their definitions. Also, there are many ‘types’ of linking and they all look the same (blue underlined text by default). I’d love a more subtle “context” link to be natively supported. Maybe one day the semantic web will save us all...

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Re:How to write good prompts: using spaced repetition to cre... by kiba on Friday January 01, 2021 @02:07AM (#25601468)
It is not a flash card learning technique, but it is pretty fundamental to how we learn and retain information.

SRS simply takes advantage of how spaced repetition works.

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Re:How to write good prompts: using spaced repetition to cre... by mattkrause on Friday January 01, 2021 @01:30AM (#25601351)
I’m not even sure if it’s particularly jargon-y but it might be more familiar as a verb: “When the witness paused, the officer prompted her to continue, saying “Any detail, no matter how small, might help us find the kidnapper.’”
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