1. "Torrent" is a system for storing and transporting very large files, like DVD or bigger. A torrent (noun) is one of those files. A torrent "client" is the program you install that downloads the file for you, plus something else: everyone running a torrent client participates in a worldwide distributed server; everyone who receives a torrent also transmits to others (according to rules I don't know anything about). So, you contribute to a distributed server, with your compensation being the big files you can download. What you see, when you try to download a very big file, is that you're receiving from many different torrent clients around your area, or around the world, simultaneously. Also, if you have a copy of data other people want, and you put it in the designated place and label it as participating, your computer will send bits of it as it has free time. (I think you don't have to participate in that second part, but your system then gets labeled as a sort of non-ideal node, or something.) www.bittorrent.com
2. The "learning data" referred to is the giant collection of all the mnemosyne repetition and scoring data that's been uploaded so far. The importance of this is: The author of mnemosyne is looking for proof that one algorithm is better than another before accepting any of the many changes to the algorithm that people like myself keep suggesting. Lacking any proof, I keep changing mnemosyne's algorithm for myself, back and forth, and I'm not sure that I've accomplished anything *at all*. So, this is a big deal for flashcard-system theorists. The original post in this thread informs us that someone has collected this mass of information into a torrent file, and has put it in his torrent client for anyone who wants it. So, that's a nice favor to those interested. (And the more people download it, the more copies will be in the torrent system, and the faster subsequent downloads will be. That's it.) On Aug 31, 6:51 pm, Karen <[email protected]> wrote: > Does anyone feel like explaining what a "learning data torrent" is? > Or is it one of those - if you have to ask, you'll never get it? Just > wondering, > Karen > > On Aug 31, 9:37 pm, Peter Bienstman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Code to parse the logs is in the 2.x codebase, in the statistics_server > > subdir. > > > Cheers, > > > Peter > > > On Monday 31 August 2009 02:18:11 pm mongrel wrote: > > > > To HorCri (or anyone else looking at this data): > > > Have you started working on this yet? > > > Would you mention your tools and procedures? > > > Thank you. > > > > On Aug 18, 6:55 am, HorCri <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Thank you thank you! I hope I can learn something by analysing this > > > > batch of data. > > > > > HorCri > > > > > On Aug 15, 9:13 am, Peter Bienstman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Thanks to the work of Tomasz Melcer, there is now a torrent of the > > > > > collected learning data of Mnemosyne: > > > > > >http://www.legittorrents.info/index.php?page=torrent- > > > > > details&id=29b67f580ed97d6a10429697d5006c3eb47b2f18 > > > > > > Please post anything you find out from it here :-) > > > > > > 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] > > ------------------------------------------------- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
