On Friday 15 May 2009 04:44:42 pm Gwern Branwen wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 4:07 AM, Peter Bienstman > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > If you make a new card, its starting easiness is the average easiness of > > all the cards in the database. It would be a nice experiment to try that > > out on your deck, and see what easiness comes out. > > I'm curious: what's the reason for it being the the average easiness? > > Thinking about it, I'm guessing the reason is to try to adapt to the > user: a user who inputs lots of 'bad'/hard questions will have a deck > with a low average easiness, and so one should expect any future cards > to also be bad/hard, and so it's more efficient to set the beginning > easiness down low; while a user who inputs lots of bite-size 'easy' > cards will be quickly pushing cards up in easiness, increasing the > average, and thus one should expect more easy cards and so default to > higher easinesses.
You seem to have a talent for answering your own questions :-) 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
