As usual on this friendly forum, people rally round quickly.
I'm grateful for all the responses. Here are my replies in
chronological sequence.
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Gwern:
>> ...Cloze deletions...
>>
>> For cities, where one reads
>> letters in groups and not number by number, I suppose one would want
>> to delete groups of vowels or consonants, or maybe just delete by
>> halves.
Good suggestion :)
I'm a fan of cloze deletions, but it never occurred to me to use
anything other than, for example, b{5} or {date} or {colour}
I suppose "Tegucigalpa" might become Te{3]i{3}pa
or, even simpler:
Q: Teguci{3}pa
A: gal
and
Q: Te{3]igalpa
A: guc
The obvious advantage of using cloze is that I can retrospectively
cloze only those syllables that I'm having problems with. (Someone
else might have problems with completely different syllables.)
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Charles:
>> Tegucigalpa is a cup of TEA being sipped by Mr GUCCI the designer
>> who is GULPing down his tea. This is the capital of a Honduras,
>> so I imagined GUCCI driving a Honda Accord car, sipping the tea and gulping
>> loudly.
It always amazes me how some people can generate these excellent
mnemonics easily. I read Harry Lorayne when I was even younger than I
am now. (Harry Lorayne is Tony Buzan's great-grandfather!)
I used his methods for learning telephone numbers, but then I invented
the hand-held computer :)
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Peter:
>> The idea here is that you first work on maintaining the knowledge that you
>> already have, and only then start to work on acquiring new knowledge.
I'm sure that's absolutely true in a leisurely academic world. But
some of us are forced to "cram". Either for tomorrow's meeting, or for
next week's hastily-arranged free holiday to England :)
Cramming automatically implies shortage of time. That's when we are
desperate for a tool that would quickly push easily learned material
into the future, and leave us with a much shorter list of difficult
items.
Here are some comments:
Presenting non-memorised words before scheduled words ensures that new
difficult items with steep forgetting curves are addressed before
scheduled items with flatter forgetting curves.
Assume 20 items are scheduled for Tuesday. As far as Mneomosyne is
concerned, Tuesday lasts for 24 hours, so the scheduled words can be
addressed at any time during those 24 hours. Non-memorised words, on
the other hand, must be addressed before the forgetting curve drops to
zero.
So, a user who knows about forgetting curves might feel obliged to
learn the scheduled words as early in the day as possible, simply to
reduce the delay before addressing the non-memorized words. This seems
artificial to me. The tool should be the servant of the user, not the
user of the servant. (That doesn't sound right.)
Presenting scheduled words before non-memorized words seems to me like
"handholding". It reduces the possibility that a user might be become
bored after addressing the non-memorized words first, and therefore
ignore some of the scheduled words. I think it's up to each user to
maintain sufficient personal discipline to follow the daily schedule.
Would it be possible to have a user-configurable option to specify
whether non-memorised cards are presented before scheduled cards, or
verse vica?
>> if you're not sure that you'll remember the card tomorrow, keeping grading
>> it 0 or 1, and the scheduled interval is much less than 1 day,
When the option, "Number of grade 0 cards to hold in your hand" was
introduced, I assumed this would solve my specific problem.
Unfortunately, it leads to multiple successive re-presentations,
especially when the box drops to 2 or 1, with a word such as
"Tegucigalpa" causing the problem.
I have a suggestion that might improve the "cards in hand" option.
I'll present it in another post, if I remember.
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Luhmann:
>> When using flashcards to forcefeed novel material, I would usually need to
>> review a number of times a day.
>>
>> On my self developed flashcard program, cards would be re-presented after
>> twice the last interval between tests if I got >> it right, or half thereof
>> if I got it wrong (or otherwise reset to zero, if I have no clue). This
>> method works well on any kind of >> revision schedule.
That sounds interesting. Would you be interested in showing us your
program?
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