2009/7/26 Peter Bienstman <[email protected]>: > > On Sunday 26 July 2009 03:59:57 am Gwern Branwen wrote: > >> Incidentally, Peter, if you're reading this thread: *are* the >> SuperMemo folks right about each card taking 5 minutes? I've added a >> number of cards based on that belief, and maybe the preliminary >> statistics have something to say about that rule of thumb. > > I haven't gotten around to looking at the stats yet in great detail. I am > however working now on code to import your 1.x cards and history into the 2.0 > SQL database.
I exported my Chinese deck to Anki a year and a half ago when Mnemosyne wouldn't work on my new Macbook (due to either pygame or pyqt not compiling on OS X 10.5), while keeping Mnemosyne on my Windows and Linux boxes for French and German (what a mess :D). Having a quick look at my deck, I see stats recorded by Anki of between 5 minutes for easy cards and 19 minutes for very difficult, mature cards (9 months old or so). I don't know what the average is, but I'd expect something more like 10 minutes. Certainly 5 minutes as a lifetime card maximum seems like a very hopeful estimate, for a learner who never misses reviews, with easy cards. As usual, it comes down to a question of how difficult the material in each card is. E.g. I have a few English-English cards (for words like "hinterland" and "overweening") in the same deck, which are a year and a half old and on a ~1.6 year interval, with about 30 sec up to 2 mins on each. Personally, I'm not sure if using Mnemosyne to learn (memorise?) Scheme is a productive use of time - programming being less about a large atomic vocabulary than a small language with many ways to apply it. Since you already have the knack of programming, I would suggest that all programming languages are just tiny dialects that sit atop your existing programming knowledge. Most of programming is about developing abstract skills, somewhat similar to driving a car. I wouldn't use an SRS to learn how to drive a car :D That said, I'd love to hear how it pans out and if it can work well. Perhaps my prejudice against SRS use for more difficult subjects than vocabulary/grammar/facts comes from my failure to use it successfully when studying a couple of final year compsci courses. Which is probably down to poor application by myself rather than limited applicability! Oisín --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
