I disagree! What is the point of increasing the interval if you barely remembered it giving a grade 2? Increasing the interval, you will most likely forget it and grade it 1 on the next time, and you will have to start all over again, from 1 - 2 days repetition.
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 1:01 PM, querido <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Feb 19, 9:28 am, Francisco José Fiuza Lima Júnior > <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > I understand, but hopefully this "ideal interval" can stretched, by > some factor, longer and longer until the memory becomes "permanent". > It wouldn't be too hard to remember the card for the same interval > again, so the sensation of difficulty, and your progress, should be > thought of as caused by this stretching. Why do you want it to be > hard? Because this accelerates the process of separating the hard > cards from the easy ones. They get separated when you fail the hard > ones. Stretching enough to cause you to fail some, but not too many, > is the ideal, because the easy ones are getting pushed out of the way. > > Failing cards is part of the process that concentrates the hard cards > at short intervals: you focus on the hard cards by failing them, while > the easy cards fly off into the future. > > The algorithm can't be perfect for each individual card, but I am > confident that it offers a very effective general policy for a large > stack of cards, to prioritize your work for you. > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
