Yuri Matheus Dias - Quantum Country interview - 2019-12-04

Yuri has completed the in-text level of all three essays and has completed five review sessions. They’ve almost finished 2 weeks of retention in QCVC and have almost finished 5 days in the other two essays. They registered on 10/31, just barely in time to see the new onboarding emails and review session summaries.

yurimathe.yp@gmail.com
https://quantum.country/debug/userJourney?email=yurimathe.yp@gmail.com

Highlights

  • Yuri is a master’s student in Brazil, with a background in software engineering. He’s curious about whether quantum country’s relevant to his research in databases.
  • Feels Quantum Country was a helpful primer but that he’d need to do more independent study to answer that research question. He plans on moving into a QC notebook environment. He wishes we had more active exercises.
  • He’s a believer in SRS (“I know this works for remembering stuff”; “was very useful”). He’d used it prior for learning kanji and attempted (unsuccessfully) to expand his usage to other subjects.

Raw notes

  • Was looking at NNADL, found QCVC via MN’s blog
    • Is a sweng, was curious about QC
    • Works at IMP, the Brazilian space agency
    • MS in space systems engineering, was interested in whether QC is relevant
    • “I need to study more”
    • is interested in whether he can apply quantum search to a SQL aggregation algorithm
      • had that interest prior to reading search essay
    • plans on using IBM’s QC notebook environment
  • How did essays change your thinking about your idea?
    • feels stuck at the gate level, needs more training
    • “I’d need to find a classic circuit first, then translate into quantum, then see if there’s a speed up”
  • Impressions of Quantum Country
    • feels SRS helps him remember parts
    • was able to explain to colleagues questions about QC, correcting misconceptions
    • “it was easier for me to remember the general concepts because of the SRS”
    • why continue to do the reviews?
    • “I know this works for remembering stuff” “I have a little bit of faith in this system”
    • wishes he could work through exercises
    • had worked through some from the text
    • doesn’t feel he knows the correct answer
  • Had used SRS
    • “was very useful” “I really like this concept”
    • mostly for Japanese vocabulary, Kanji
    • used Wanikani
    • likes that Wanikani makes you type
    • “being forced to type … really helps you remember it. you make a lot more mistakes, but …if you know how to type precisely … you can … produce the knowledge”
    • doesn’t trust self-assessment: feels he may weasel out if he makes a small mistake
    • doesn’t know how to mark a card when he forgets a small detail
    • prior to Wanikani, used Anki for Japanese and for some programming concepts
    • used someone else’s deck for Python functions
    • stuck with it for a month, then did programming exercises and found he learned much better that way
    • “there was no need for me to remember all the functions”
    • made a deck when he was learning stats
      • was a 1 week intensive course (?!)
      • just used it in that one week
    • uninstalled Anki from his cell phone
    • connection between SRS and conversations?
    • no, because focused on Kanji
  • emails and review sessions
    • found the curve “very interesting” “cool representation” “to see how you remember more stuff”
    • what does “you finished 5 days level mean?”
    • “I remembered it all for 5 days”
    • interpret 2 weeks item
    • had 88 to review next time
    • knew that he had failed some of the 5 days items
    • it was confusing because we showed it as complete
    • interpret bottom of card
    • correctly identifies current interval
    • off by one in predicting the behavior of the action
Last updated 2023-07-13.