On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 2:52 AM, Peter Bienstman <[email protected]> wrote:
> I personally would not memorise poems using Mnemosyne, as the main reason for > memorising a poem would be able to recite it from front to back, and not being > able to say line 21 after you see line 20. However, I know some people who use > Mnemosyne to memorise poems, and they do seem to like it. That'd be me, I take it. Robin, you can see my approach at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users/browse_frm/thread/f69d567cc7608f52/84ce1bed201f6adc Attached is a screenshot of a _Rubaiyat_ card in action. (You'll see that it's a bit improved over the original; the latest versions of my scripts can always be found at http://community.haskell.org/~gwern/wiki/haskell/ ) >> > For the first use I tried breaking a long poem into couplets and putting >> > two >> > lines in as a question, and the next two lines as the answer. By linking >> > pairs of lines over a long set of questions I hoped would get help with >> > memorising the whole poem. The combinatorial explosion of my approach means that it may not work well for 6-lines or more verse forms; in that case, you might to try memo2.hs. I don't seem to have written it up anywhere, but it's basically taking it 2 lines at a time as you do. > So for your specific case of bridge, I would keep on improving your bridge > skills through playing, reading books, or whatever, and once you've got the > insight to distill a little 'rule' from that (like when it's OK to open with 3 > clubs), you add it to Mnemosyne to make sure that you don't forget. > > Distilling this set of rules would indeed be a mammoth task, but so would > learning to play bridge in the more traditional way, I guess. Once you create > such a deck, you could in theory share it with other people, but they probably > will not be able to pick up the 'insight' you got from playing by just > memorising the rule without context. I'll mention again that this is another rule-data tradeoff, where a program-card (that generates random bridge situations according to a rule and then tests you) would be useful. See: - http://www.reddit.com/r/cogsci/comments/9aufn/ever_wanted_to_analyze_860mb_of_spaced_repetition/c0reso2 - http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users/browse_frm/thread/b104b9a1543ba34/eb28b030b361f6b8?lnk=gst&q=multiplication#eb28b030b361f6b8 - http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users/browse_frm/thread/433872b155ad7451/6e1ef5c773dcc5e7?lnk=gst&q=multiplication#6e1ef5c773dcc5e7 You could, of course, find some repository of bridge problems or situations, and turn them into flashcards. A few hundred would, I'd guess, cover all the principles of interest in sufficient volume that you'd memorize the principles rather than the problems. >> > (This article is about SuperMemo, but Wikipedia led me to your site as an >> > alternative.) This, incidentally, is why working on Wikipedia articles is useful for FLOSS projects, even though it can be difficult. Aside from anecdotes like this, one of the top referrers for xmonad.org is the Xmonad article I wrote. >> > 2) Will your product only really take off when there are large decks of >> > cards, prepared by skilled experts, covering a range of topics? However >> > clever and well-founded the system is, how do you reach a critical mass >> > of >> > content as opposed to mere method? Maybe. Dynamic cards is my favored breakthrough, but perhaps existing static content isn't sufficiently high quality and lacks multimedia. Anki is a competing SRS, which is roughly twice as popular as Mnemosyne according to the Debian Popcon: http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=anki+mnemosyne&show_installed=on One of its signature features is integrated downloading of user decks (rather than go to the Mnemosyne website, search around, download, and import manually, one opens File, clicks the appropriate item, and then can incrementally search the listings and download & install with another click), which seems to have made contributing back one's cards much more popular. -- gwern -- 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.
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