i'd like to build anki decks for myself that i'll end up finding deeply useful.
i'll give m50 to any suggestion i like, and m250 to any suggestion i end up finding useful. i'll add more to the bounty if there are more good suggestions.
example: memorizing translations between odds and percentages
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If you excel at mental arithmetic, I'd suggest committing the values of standard distributions to memory. To begin with:
P(-1 < X < 1) is approximately 68%
P(-2 < X < 2) is around 95%
P(-3 < X < 3) is nearly 99.8%
Naturally, you can also familiarize yourself with other common distributions. I've found this handy for swiftly assessing the validity of arguments that include numerical data.
i'm surprised nobody mentioned ACX's essay "Memorize A Few Basic Numbers To Have Intuitions About Other Things"
Basic writing/number systems of major languages e.g. Cyrillic script (Russian), Arabic script, Devanagari script (Hindi), Hangul script (Korean), hiragana/katakana script (Japanese). It's surprising how many place names, prices, cognates, and loan words you'll find yourself immediately noticing. Also it breaks down one of the psychological barriers to starting to learn languages using those scripts. Plus they look cool 😎
Multiple types of knots (clove hitch, becket bend, figure eight, bowline, etc)
Converting Imperial to Metric
Converting Pounds to Kilos
Righty Tighty, Lefty Loosey
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