Luka’s an engineer, primarily interested in learning QC because of some vague sense that it’s something he should know for the future; he has no specific applications in mind. He came to QCVC through TTFT, which he found very exciting.
He strongly believes that the mechanism is building reliable recall, and he believes that in turn will enable him to engage with more complex material: “I think if I get to the final review stage, I’ll be able to transition to more advanced QC courses.”
Filed andymatuschak/qcc#362 Consider randomizing the order of retry cards (and possibly the main cards-to-be-reviewed too?).
His interpretation of the card levels was interesting (and probably fairly common): they were doing the job of motivating him and roughly reflecting his internal sense of progress… but he didn’t literally understand what they meant.
Raw notes
Works in Malaysia
TTFT came up in internal team communication
He checked it out and followed up with QCVC
He’s a huge fan of our work, thinks the new media stuff is amazing
Works for “Ultraworking”, which tries to make tools to help people work and think
e.g. “Work Cycles” to help people plan their days
QC was on his “to learn” list. Hygienic type:, like blockchain, AI, etc.
“Mnemonic medium is something you’ll probably 100x in the future, but even know I found it very efficient.”
Essay
“beautifully written, really shows the authors know what they’re talking about”
“guiding the reader away from the bad paths”
“Mnemonic cards”
The hardest cards ask you to do something, like drawing a circuit
Or simpler cards just ask you to remember a word, and that works well too.
“I think if I get to the final review stage, I’ll be able to transition to more advanced QC courses”
Wishes he could go back to the essay to review immediately from the review sessions
Retry mechanic: feels we should randomize the sequence. Or we should change the sentence structure to avoid syntactic matching.
On the levels / check boxes:
“I think of it like how much you have this knowledge locked in.”
Finds the exponential scale motivational (brought it up without me asking)
Finds the UI very lovely
He kind of understands the levels and intervals, but it’s fuzzy. He has a model of it that’s slightly inaccurate, but it probably mostly achieves its emotional goals.
What are you trying do with this knowledge?
Preparing himself “For when the quantum computers come.”
Have any social contexts around this?
“I think it’s very useful, especially when learning new stuff.”
Has a note-taking system he calls “knowledge landscapes” he finds very helpful