[lojban-beginners] Re: Test post, and request for help ...

[Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn@gmail.com>]

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 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