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Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: SuperMemo + PalmOS Emulator
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Under Emacs, there's a program called Elip that claims to implement the
SuperMemo algorithm for selecting questions and ranking answers.

On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 15:56, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 02:32:28PM -0500, Ken Comer wrote:
> > > Many of you have heard me attribute most of my success with
> > > Lojban to a memory aid (read: flashcard on steroids) program
> > > called SuperMemo, specifically the PalmOS version.
> > 
> > Is this really much better than the (now outdated but, so far as I
> > can tell, mostly correct)
> > well-engineered-but-didn't-work-for-me-with-a-30-minute-per-
> > day-lesson-schedule logflash (LF.EXE) program?
> 
> Yes.  Vastly.
> 
> 1.  SuperMemo doesn't require that you try to memorize the entire
> freaking vocabulary it once.  I still only have ~1500 words (out of
> ~2000) in my SuperMemo rotation, because the rest are mostly
> useless.
> 
> 2.  The SuperMemo databases I've provided are sorted in frequency of
> use order, so you can memorize only the stuff you'll need.
> 
> 3.  SuperMemo doesn't require you to type in what it thinks is the
> right word, so if you have a good handle on the concept you're not
> penalized for not knowing the exact keyord.
> 
> 4.  LogFlash is designed for some research goal I don't understand.
> SuperMemo is designed to help you learn things, and its algorithm
> for doing so is *superlative*.
> 
> 5.  I haven't spent 30 minutes a day on SuperMemo in months.
> 
> -Robin