On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 8:39 PM, dazedconfused <[email protected]> wrote: > By saying that procedural memories can be trained efficiently with > mnemosyne, you are implying that the algorithm fits both types of > memories, thereby implying that they share the same forgetting curve. > That's your hypothesis, so the burden of proof is on you. I'm not > being combative or anything, but that's how it is. Sufficiency. If I > propose that bananas cause extreme diarrhea in Russian children under > the age of 3 that live in remote villages untouched by tropical > fruits, and there is no evidence to contradict me, would it seem > reasonable for YOU to prove me wrong? Absurd? Yes, but it illustrates > the point.
I didn't discuss the space-time tradeoff and representing multiplication as a lookup table just because I like to show off my computer science knowledge. That discussion was meant to demonstrate a *constructive* proof of how any computable function could be turned into declarative knowledge, and the discussion of manipulating Go problems to show that 'computable function' embraces a great deal of what one would consider a procedural skill. Suppose one wrote a dynamic card, but then instead of using it as is, just used it to generate 500 random static cards? What is the meaningful difference beside the latter having very unfortunate properties with regard to disk-space or browsing or editing? I think I have met the burden of proof there until someone shows differently... (And then there's my point that unless the forgetting curve looks very odd indeed for procedural memory, the SRS algorithm ought to adapt to it anyway.) > Either way, I think your idea is great and I hope that you or somebody > more familiar with python can realize it. You mentioned math and Go as > potentially suitable areas of application. What else do you think > could realistically benefit from this? Dunno. I'm not very imaginative. Is some teacher or professor somewhere having their students take some sort of computer-scored test or quiz or practice exercise? Then you have found something you can use. -- gwern http://www.gwern.net -- 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.
