Whew, that was great. Thank you for the info. So much to learn about info sharing, compiling, etc.
On Sep 1, 8:38 am, querido <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
