You're welcome! Peter
On Monday 01 December 2008 10:26:14 Vincent wrote: > Thanks, Peter. That makes sense. Thanks, too, for your work on > Mnemosyne. > > On Nov 28, 7:32 pm, Peter Bienstman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is a 'beauty wart': when a card has never been seen before (which > > you can see because 'repetitions' is 0 or 1), it can have a bogus value > > for this quantity. > > > > This does not affect the scheduling in any way. > > > > That this card does not show up can have different reasons: either it is > > in an active category, or the vice-versa of the card was scheduled for > > today. > > > > Peter > > > > On Friday 28 November 2008 10:39:13 Vincent wrote: > > > I've had the vague feeling that a few of my mnemoysne cards for some > > > strange reason aren't displaying anymore. However, one of the problems > > > with such a suspicion is that since there's this super cool algorithm > > > running in the background it's hard to distinguish between a bug > > > preventing the card from repeating and a card just having a difficulty > > > rating that's causing it to show up extremely infrequently. > > > > > > Anyways, one day I finally thought up of one particular card I > > > suspected wasn't coming up - the visa versa of one I just did - and > > > sure enough when I looked at its statistics the number for "Days until > > > next repetition" was a negative number. I thought that odd. > > > > > > I'm still open to the possibility that I'm just playing mind games > > > with the spacing algorithm. But I find it odd that a flash card would > > > have a negative number on it. After just randomly going through the > > > deck I found numerous cards that had negative numbers for "Days until > > > next repetition." Even if the algorithm is not broken shouldn't there > > > not be negative numbers on the statistics display? > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > Vincent > > > > -- > > ------------------------------------------------ > > Peter Bienstman > > Ghent University, Dept. of Information Technology > > Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, B-9000 Gent, Belgium > > tel: +32 9 264 34 46, fax: +32 9 264 35 93 > > WWW:http://photonics.intec.UGent.be > > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ------------------------------------------------ > > -- ------------------------------------------------ Peter Bienstman Ghent University, Dept. of Information Technology Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, B-9000 Gent, Belgium tel: +32 9 264 34 46, fax: +32 9 264 35 93 WWW: http://photonics.intec.UGent.be email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
