Anki came up with a genuine on-air endorsement 7 times across the episodes we processed. This page collects every one of those moments: who said it, what they said, and the exact point in the episode.
The flashcard app Anki has become something of a cult tool among Lex Fridman's guests, with six genuine recommendations turning up in our transcript search. It is the kind of niche software pick that never gets promoted as an ad.
Each mention links to the exact moment in the episode, quote included. If you are curious whether the spaced-repetition hype holds up, this is the unfiltered version straight from the people saying it.
“another thing I recommend for people a lot is I use anky a lot every day it's a app that does space repetition” — Charan Ranganath 00:37:30
Neuroscientist Charan Ranganath explains how human memory works as a reconstructive, predictive system shaping identity, imagination, false memories, and our sense of time.
“it's an app called anki i don't know if you don't know about it it's a space repetition app” — Lex Fridman 01:55:13
Tim Urban riffs with Lex Fridman on aliens, Mars colonization, Neuralink, Elon's first-principles mind, polarization, and beating procrastination.
“what anki does is like literally it determines for me i don't have to do anything there's this giant pile of things i've saved” — Lex Fridman 01:57:49
Tim Urban riffs with Lex Fridman on aliens, Mars colonization, Neuralink, Elon's first-principles mind, polarization, and beating procrastination.
“i've been using anki it's an app for helps you memorize things and i've actually just a few months ago started doing this daily” — Lex Fridman 01:37:31
Math Olympiad coach Po-Shen Loh explains how to teach invention, why hard problems are beautiful, and his incentive-aligned approach to stopping pandemics.
“I use it for I'm terrible with names so I'm started to use it for names too of names of people I recommend it highly” — Lex Fridman 03:40:23
Robert Breedlove builds a sweeping first-principles case that money is speech, energy, and morality, and that Bitcoin fixes the world by fixing the money.
“Anki and Gebo the two companies two amazing companies social robotics companies that have recently been closed down” — guest 00:46:56
MIT researcher Kate Darling explains why we treat robots like living things and what that reveals about human empathy.
“I used Anki quite a lot myself... I actually don't ever talk to anybody about it... but it works incredibly well for me” — Jeremy Howard 01:32:14
fast.ai founder Jeremy Howard on making deep learning accessible, training fast on a single GPU, and why anyone can do it.
