I’m just getting introduced to machine learning and I’m interested in focusing my studies around a project I’d like to complete one day. I thought it would be interesting to apply machine learning to flashcards to help optimize learning. For those familiar with Anki, it’s essentially that concept but with machine learning instead of a fixed algorithm.

Since I’m new to the field I’m not quite sure where I should start. What topics do you suggest I focus on to learn how to get this started? Would you approach it with unsupervised reinforcement learning or in a different way?