2009/7/26 Gwern Branwen <[email protected]>: > Hm. The SuperMemo answer no doubt is that anything much beyond 5 > minutes represents a card which needs to be broken down and made > easier, or studied better somehow.
This could certainly be true; it's been pointed out that separating the phonetic and character learning might ease some of this, but I can't bring myself to re-engineer over 2000 cards and add to the mess :P > I wasn't considering switching to Anki before, but between the web > review stuff, and this timing feature, it seems tempting. As someone > who used both simultaneously for quite a while, how do they stack up? Both are excellent programs which certainly help during language learning, and perhaps lots of other material if used correctly. They share many strengths, but currently Anki's statistics and graphs are very impressive. On the other hand, Mnemosyne's plugin architecture looks to be really neat for 2.0, so to be honest, it's too close to call! >> 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. > > By that argument, isn't this the best way of going about learning > Scheme given that I already have the knack of programming/know > functional Haskell programming? > > If the differences between them are dialectical, then that suggests > that only the vocab and syntax differ substantially - and what's the > killer app for SRS? Vocab... That could work - as long as you don't get overwhelmed (e.g. when I tried to convert all of my notes for compiler construction into cards and ran out of time less than halfway through, by trying to memorise _everything_). > It can be difficult. I don't think I would be studying Scheme this way > if I didn't have hundreds of practice problems and all the examples - > it would just be expecting too much of myself. If I knew the right > examples to create, I wouldn't need to study them... Right, but many of those practice problems contained enough work to be significantly time-sucking (e.g. my solution for 2.19 is an eyesore). I hope you can break the information down into finer chunks than the example questions. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
