It doesn't make that much sense now. Let's say the interval for a card is 50 days, and I grade it 2 because I got it barely correct. Will it be better to:
1) increase the interval to 60 days and let me forget it on the next time, 2) or decrease it to 40 days and give it a grade 3 next time because I didn't leave it for too long? I think the option 2 is better, because if the interval always increases, I'll eventually forget it one day, and then, I'll have to start all over like a fresh card. Is it how it works? I know that when I forget a card, it starts all over from interval of 1, 2 , 3 days... It doesn't seem reasonable to increase the interval if I'm not comfortable with the card... In my opinion, the algorithm should find an ideal interval for a card, increasing or decreasing it so that you give it a grade 4. Another example. I grade one card 5 and the next interval was set to 100 days. When that time comes, I was about to forget the card and grade it 2. Why do you think that if in 100 days a grade 5 card dropped to 2, increasing it to 130 days will do any good? I'm 99% sure that after those 130 days I'll forget the card... On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Jonathan Blake <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:44 PM, querido <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > My comment is: You can trust the program. Just keep working, making > > cards, testing, testing. It will work out. > > One of my difficulties was learning what grade to use when. My current > rule of thumb for reviewing learned cards is: > > 5: I can't imagine ever forgetting this. > 4: The answer came almost instantaneously to me. > 3: I got the right answer but it took a little thought or I may have > thought of a wrong answer at first before correcting myself. > 2: I got the right answer but it took a lot of thought. > 1/0: I got the wrong answer. > > I'm still trying to ferret out an intuitive understanding of the > internals of the system so I can grade properly. Maybe I'm > overthinking it, but I've learned through experience that I was far > too liberal with 4's and 5's when I first started. (Plus I hated to > admit even to myself that I was having difficulty with a card.) > > -- > Jonathan > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
