From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Sep 21 14:40:09 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 21 Sep 2005 14:40:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1EICK1-0003IW-MO for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 14:40:09 -0700 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.201]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1EICJy-0003IE-Q0 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 14:40:09 -0700 Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id m7so1970586nzf for ; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 14:40:03 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=PWEBnGpdTZGv9+vkfaO0kH502UPi0+Oy1YzmPU/OQd8pIX4F+dVrTOKZg9ybjUcxFE2Lc0A+GJnqfiF5DffKVq1YmTLb32Cqg+327SL4Vm/jbxFqRsw5rtMhpTsRIEUrBuY7lfnNhZxATp6dhIcXWgY+0OScZHhwa2iUOt+S1t0= Received: by 10.54.140.10 with SMTP id n10mr2740110wrd; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 14:40:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.142.3 with HTTP; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 14:40:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:40:03 -0400 From: Matt Arnold To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Test post, and request for help ... In-Reply-To: <737b61f3050921140045eda762@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_3706_27704513.1127338803693" References: <200509201313.42267.colin.wright@denbridgemarine.com> <737b61f3050920170251f83d81@mail.gmail.com> <4331BE8A.6080408@handgranat.org> <737b61f3050921140045eda762@mail.gmail.com> X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) X-archive-position: 2223 X-Approved-By: matt.mattarn@gmail.com X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: matt.mattarn@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners ------=_Part_3706_27704513.1127338803693 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline As long as we're talking about improvements to Supermemo, I have some suggestions. I've been memorizing Lojban vocabulary every day in Supermemo for more than a year, and out of the 995 words I've committed, 98 of those have reached 100% difficulty. I think this is because Supermemo works on a 24-hour cycle= . Looking at something every 24 hours doesn't teach you if you forget it in a= n hour. A tool to keep something in your memory doesn't help if you didn't learn the fact to begin with. When a flashcard is failed often enough that it reaches 100% difficulty, a flashcard program should start offering it to you 6 hours later. If you fail that, 3 hours later. Every subsequent failur= e should cut the time in half until you stop failing it; every success should double it. Eventually that flashcard wil be back on the 24-hour cycle again= , but this time you actually know it and it's not futilely asking you a question you will forget 24 hours later, an infinite number of times. Secondly, perhaps the program should be aware that the flashcard bearing th= e English-to-Lojban question is connected to the flashcard bearing the same Lojban-to-English question. This is probably a more difficult request and also a more frivolous one, bu= t I would love a feature that allows me to replace the English with low-res black-on-white pictures. -epkat ------=_Part_3706_27704513.1127338803693 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline As long as we're talking about improvements to Supermemo, I have some sugge= stions.

I've been memorizing Lojban vocabulary every day in Supermemo for more than a year, and out of the 995 words I've committed, 98 of those have reached 100% difficulty. I think this is because Supermemo works on a 24-hour cycle. Looking at something every 24 hours doesn't teach you if you forget it in an hour. A tool to keep something in your memory doesn't help if you didn't learn the fact to begin with. When a flashcard is failed often enough that it reaches 100% difficulty, a flashcard program should start offering it to you 6 hours later. If you fail that, 3 hours later. Every subsequent failure should cut the time in half until you stop failing it; every success should double it. Eventually that flashcard wil be back on the 24-hour cycle again, but this time you actually know it and it's not futilely asking you a question you will forget 24 hours later, an infinite number of times.

Secondly, perhaps the program should be aware that the flashcard bearing the English-to-Lojban question is connected to the flashcard bearing the same Lojban-to-English question.

This is probably a more difficult request and also a more frivolous one, but I would love a feature that allows me to replace the English with low-res black-on-white pictures.

-epkat
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