On Tuesday 30 June 2009 02:34:47 pm Ben wrote: > Thanks for sharing---to me those statistics are very interesting and > show some possible limits on what memory can achieve in the long term. > But having to review 175 cards a day seems rough to me. I guess it's > all about how difficult the things are that you memorize. > > Here's the way I was looking at it, as summarized by Sherlock Holmes > in "A Study in Scarlet":
Nice quote, thanks! > I realize it's probably all about how hard the things are (e.g. most > people have a vocabulary of 10000+ words, and they manage to remember > them without any software at all) but perhaps in practice users' > long-term review rates cluster in a narrow band. The answers to these questions lie locked in the data we've collected. Once 2.0 is out the door, I hope to have more time to look at those then. Cheers, Peter -- ------------------------------------------------ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
