Are you sure about this? Unscientifically, it seems more plausible to me that there is some minimum limit on how seldomly you can review something and still remember it. For instance, for a specific card, here are two sequences of optimal times between review:
A: 1mo, 3mo, 6mo, 1yr, 2yr, 3yr, 5yr, 7yr, 10yr ... B: 1mo, 3mo, 6mo, 1yr, 1yr, 1yr, 1yr, 1yr, 1yr ... I would think that pattern B is more plausible than A---eventually memory would peak. In fact, as a person reaches middle age and beyond, wouldn't their memory deteriorate? I'm wondering about this because one reason I use mnemosyne is because I'm 30 now and I'd like to remember a lot of the stuff I remember "naturally" now when I'm 60. I'd assume just retaining what I have now is going to be harder and harder as I age. -- Ben ----------------- Original message ----------------- From: Peter Bienstman <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:47:52 +0200 On Tuesday 30 June 2009 04:18:40 pm Gwern Branwen wrote: > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Ben<[email protected]> wrote: > > Now, if I only wanted to review, say, 50 cards every day, then I was > > hoping that I could still have 10K cards in my deck. This corresponds > > to a 0.5% (=50/10K) "review rate". But Peter has a review rate of > > 175/8500 = 2%, which seems pretty high to me. In order to determine > > how big my practical mental attic is, it seems useful to know whether > > achieveable review rates are more like 2% or 0.2%. > > FWIW, I'm at 1.8% myself. But I'm a little unclear here; I thought the > idea of spaced repetition was that the review rate would decrease over > time. So wouldn't the question really be 'how long would it take to > hit 0.2%?' and not 'whether'? I will hit any low number, *provided* you don't add new cards in the meantime... 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
