The Quantized Knowledge Project

This post is written by Ved Five days ago, I decided to learn Japanese. I didn’t know anything about the language--even when I watch anime, I prefer dubs. I work on Quantized with my friend Robert, and I was curious to test out the new Hiragana deck. On day

Today we're excited to announce the Quantized Hiragana deck! We weren't planning on making a kana deck. But it turned out that the people starting Japanese Foundation were all over the place in their knowledge of kana. If you don't know kana well, the early sentences of Japanese Foundation are

After a successful closed beta, we're releasing the first 400 sentences of the Japanese Foundation deck into open beta today. We're also launching a larger closed beta of the first 2000 sentences. Apply for that here. As a reminder, the Japanese Foundation deck is a collection of ten thousand LN

The Japanese Foundation deck is broken into four parts. [Done] The first 500 sentences are designed to introduce basic vocabulary and sentence structure. Collectively, the sentences also introduce the 400 most common vocabulary lemmas and 50 simple grammatical lemmas. We've personally checked them all, but we're nonetheless working on getting

tl; dr. Nobody knows which Japanese learning strategies work and which don't because nobody collects data or uses the scientific method. This causes lots of new learners to pick bad strategies and fail to learn. The goal of the Quantized Knowledge Project is to impose scientific rigor and prevent that.

The Quantized Knowledge Project has a single goal: to increase the rate of progress of humanity by making learning more efficient. In other words, we want to maximize the product of "how many people learn something via QKP" and "how much they learn." This post talks about how this QKP

The main limiting factor in human progress is the number of knowledgeable people. That's the base rate that scientific progress gets multiplied by. All else being equal, a society with twice as many knowledgeable people will progress about twice as fast. The process that generates knowledgeable people is learning. Unfortunately,

I presume that to the uninitiated the formulae will appear cold and cheerless. –Benjamin PierceWhen I was learning group theory, my friend Merrick mentioned that the main point of groups is their inverse. All proofs about groups use the inverse somewhere. That's what makes groups special. That observation totally changed

A quantum represents a single task with a unique ID. For example: c52ecb30 // COMPREHEND_MEANING_JAPANESE // 日曜日は海に行きました。 70670c92 // READ_ALOUD_JAPANESE // 日曜日は海に行きました。 Each quantum can declare dependencies on other quanta. For example, 70670c92 might depend on a card from the hiragana deck: 36677235 // READ_ALOUD_JAPANESE // た Collections of quanta,