[shepherdjerred]

> Doing hours of Anki practice and new note taking, some of it while running on a treadmill?

I studied with Anki on long 1hr walks and it worked incredibly well for me. I’d definitely recommend trying it!

Some things I learned were DS/algos, Greek alphabet pronunciation (so that I could read math symbols), the periodic table/chemical properties, and misc LeetCode interviewing stuff.

[kenrick95]

> DS/algos

How do you study that on Anki?

[shepherdjerred]

I started with these decks:

https://github.com/teivah/algodeck

https://github.com/teivah/designdeck

Essentially I'd have a question like "invert a binary tree", "implement union-find", or "structure of a topological sort". All of these are small enough that I can keep them in my head.

For small algorithms I would just regurgitate the code line-for-line in my head. For more complex ones I would just go over the structure (not actual code), e.g. I know that topological sort can use a stack or queue, you need to track indegree, add nodes to the stack/queue when their indegree == 1, and so on.

I also used this to help learn (and really understand) common runtimes which helped me when deriving the runtimes of my own algorithms.

Since I started with premade decks I had to look at lot of things up during my walks, but that slowed down as towards the end of my studying.

I did all this to prep for interview (which I wrote about on my blog: https://sjer.red/blog/2024/job-hunt/) -- I would say it worked fairly well for me though you definitely need to pair it with LeetCode or similar.

[throwaway2037]

That blog post is unbelievable. It looks very/eerily similar to men dating online in the 2020s.