Re: [lojban] Re: Smart.fm going on subscription model.

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 02:58:43PM -0800, Zifre wrote:
> Anki already has a shared deck for all the gismu and all the
> cmavo. I'm not sure what other useful smart.fm decks there were,
> besides the attitudinals and the vocative deck that I created. (If
> anyone wants, I can recreate those on Anki.)

I would really like a deck with each place for each gismu, like
smart.fm had; that made a real difference to my learning.

I would also like Anki decks with the sound files included.  You can
find the files at
http://lojban.org/~rlpowell/smartfm_valsi_files.zip ; that has all
the gismu, all the lo+SE+gismu, and all the cmavo, but none of the
cmavo compounds.  The vast majority of them are espeak, but some of
the gismu and "lo" and all the SE are by Lindar.  If the Anki cmavo
deck has compounds, make a list and post it here; whoever did the
espeak is around somewhere.

> Anyways, I don't think this is a big loss. I initially used
> smart.fm and liked it, until I tried Anki, and learned how
> pathetic smart.fm is. You literally spend at least twice as much
> time to review the same amount of material, and you don't even
> remember it as well because the algorithm is so bad. Also,
> smart.fm is multiple choice, which is not nearly as good for
> memory as complete recall like in Anki.

A lot of us enjoyed the multiple choice experience more, however;
it's much less subjective.  I often find myself agonizing over which
"how well did you remember this?" button to push, which slows
everything down and makes it annoying and a bit frustrating.

If it simply had "did you get this right?", and picked how long to
wait to quiz me again based on how long I took to answer, that would
be much better, for example.

> Right now, I can easily go through ~200 reviews per day with Anki,
> but doing that much in smart.fm would be painful...

Yeah, the app is shit and very slow, no question.

-Robin

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