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

[Chris Capel <pdf23ds@gmail.com>]

On 9/21/05, Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

I have a few suggestions to deal with these insidious leeches. One,
try doing your final review six to twelve hours after your initial
learning. This gets you halfway. Second, keep up with what the first
item in your final review is, and when you reach it again, pause for
ten minutes or so. Then do another pass through your final review.

Third, try using Pauker for some of the hard items. It automatically
times your reviews to let things get out of your ultra-short- and
short-term memory before your repetitions are done for the day. I have
a C# program to export things from supermemo format into Pauker, for
this very purpose. If you can compile a C# app I'd be happy to e-mail
it your way. (I could do the exe too, but I don't know if that'll work
well or not if you're not using Windows.)

(BTW, what are your worst? My worst one, by far, for some reason, is
{za'o}, which I've failed 13 times and have just started to get a grip
on. I'm forever confusing it with at least three or four of the other
zV'V cmavo. I also have considerable trouble with the pV'V and the
cV'V cmavo.)

>  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.

Pictures of what? The word, or something else? I think every supermemo
since 6-7 lets you put pictures in the items.

Chris Capel
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