On Friday 08 May 2009 04:32:29 pm Meteor wrote: > I have been using mnemosyne for a few months now. I have been > practising on premde deck that consist of about 3000 flashcards. I > have memorized all of these and have most of them on categories 4 and > 5. > > Just a few days ago I installed the plugin that show in the bottom > bar the statistics of the card and how different answers affect the > next repeat interval. Now that I'm doing my scheduled review I find > that in most cards the grade makes really no difference. For example a > card has stats g:5 e:2.6 R:3 L:0 LR:5 and then the card will have NR: > 0/12/12/13/13 > > How can this be?
This is because you have not done many reviews yet. The next interval basically is the multiplication of the previous interval (5 I guess in this case) with the easiness factor 2.6, which will be modified by a small fraction (like +/- 0.1 or 0.2) depending on the grade. Since the previous interval is still small, all the options more or less round to the same interval. Once you do more reps of this card, the intervals will start to differ. (BTW, there is a very good reason why the intervals are not shown by default, which is to avoid having to explain the subtleties of the algorithmn to people who just start to Mnemosyne for the first time. :-) ) > Then I made a new deck and imported cards to it with reseted stats. > First there were NR: on all cards like 0/1/2/3/5 or something like > that. But then when I was studying new cards, I got a card I had > forgotten (used the same premade deck on the new one that on my "real" > deck) and then I hit 0 like don't know the card. I had the setup to > have no more than 20 0 cards on my deck. The next time the same card > came that I already graded 0, it had NR: 0/1/1/1/1 That means that if you pass the card, it will come up the next day, regardless of the grade. BTW, these intervals you see don't take into account a small randomness factor that is added on top of it as well. Peter --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
