I now have a disc-world deck with the name of the most important characters, and a short description of things which happened to them. I usually get lost in Disc-world, for example. I'm currently also using Anki to learn the name and principal description of characters of long books. Note that I don't only consider real people. Worse, I believe that the early work is CS is now so basic that it would not be clear to me that it was an important work in her time. Or more exactly, I may know she worked on compiler, but I don't know what she did about them. Well, I'd know she is famous for being the first woman to have a Turing prize, but it would not tell me what she did to deserve it. But I would not really know why she is famous. Ok, nowaday, if I meet her, I may recall her name. Allen is a pionner in CS, the note I have about her does not really help me in any way. But now I do realize that even if Frances E. The first cards were easy, I already knew about Euclide, Al-Khwarizmi, etc. I tried to add them in chronological order. However, this list contains Euclide, Turing, Torvalds, Knuth, Jobs. Wikipedia has list of important people in computer science. Right now, my biggest problem is that I do not know who I must add. I may write a day about the result of this experience. So I currently try to use Anki to learn the name, figure and achievement of a few great name of computer science. I do know that Eric S Raymond and Paul Graham wrote texts which are considered to be important in hacker's culture, and the name of their texts use two words (Hacker and Painter, Bazar and Cathedral), while I never remembered which one is which one. For example, I do know Didier Leribon and Didier Lestrade wrote about homosexuality. Usually, I can tell more or less why they are famous. Famous peopleĪnother thing which confused me a lot is the name of famous people. And if I met them at a queer event, a polyamory event, or a BDSM event, I think adding this information in a database would be a bad idea, even if its only a private database. But I can't necessarily ask to take a picture of them. For example, when I meet friend of friend, I may want to recall them. Similarly, I've got a life outside of my work. And once I leave the conference, I never do the card. But I don't necessarily think about doing it while in the conference. Recalling their name and where we meet is thus important. I should certainly remember the name of people I meet in conferences, they could be future colleagues, they could lead to job opportunities or to scientific collaborations. However, most of the time, I don't think about taking time to make the cards. One problem with the Anki method is that it only works when I made cards. Bit I believe it would have sound strange. Of course, I could ask anyone without picture on the web whether I could take a picture to add in my database. So, it's still a costly process in my head, since using Anki created an unusual indirection. When I see the face of a colleague, I need to recall to which picture of Anki he looks like, and then I can recall his name. Using Anki to learn name has a strange side-effect. In particular, it was hard for me to learn the name of the administrative staff, because their name and pictures do not appear on our website. if a problem had no picture of themselves on the web, I wasn't able to recall their name. I was able to easily see the effect of Anki, because I realized that, while I knew the name of the colleague who have an Anki card, I still had trouble recalling the name of the few colleague who had no Anki cards. In September, when I started my job, I already knew their name. If the picture were not on their professional webpage, I did try to find them on the web and in social media. I then created a card with their picture, first-name, last name. A month before starting, I went on the website of the laboratory I was joining, and I red the list of my future colleagues. I started a new job in September 2017 as a post-doc. I'm really bad at remembering faces and names. But the most obvious one is that, thanks to Anki, I do finally recall people's name ! You can find my example, with my name and picture, on my website.
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