On Thursday, February 23, 2012 03:20:20 AM Gwern Branwen wrote: > OK, I did 'make clean' and 'make setup', then './bin/easy_install > cherrypy', and then 'make' - which popped up a Mnemosyne session? That > surprised me, since I don't expect 'make' to do such a thing.
Yes, nasty isn't it :-) It's just for my own convenience during development. > I quickly backed up my .mnemosyne (since as I said, I was not expecting > a Mnemosyne instance to run). .mnemosyne should be safe, and you can still run mnemosyne 1.x, as mnemosyne 2.x uses a different directory. If you run it from make, it will will store its info in ./dot_mnemosyne2 > It then gave me a missing media warning > and then instructions on the tag (2 pop ups isn't very nice, > especially when they come without any card text so I could go 'oh > yes'). Which two popups do you mean? > After a long wait, There should have been a progress bar to keep you informed about the procedure. > I see a whole bunch of warnings dumped to > the terminal: > > Ignoring error in file > '/home/gwern/.mnemosyne/history/4d998345_00057.bz2' while parsing > line: > 2009-07-27 07:26:42 : Imported item 125b 4 5 440 559 98 In theory, you shouldn't worry about these errors, as there were bugs in previous 1.x versions which sometimes caused garbage to be written to the logs. Nevertheless, do you mind sending me your entire old .mnemosyne directory, so that I can make sure? > Then some instructional dialogues on rating cards; I don't think these > are really necessary when Mnemosyne just imported 18k flashcards from > an existing installation... Actually, I changed the text from 1.x, as I got feedback from users that they didn't find some aspects clear. > I noticed a typo, "likeley". Fixed, thanks! > It might be a good idea to link to the torrent in the final popup > on uploading one's data. You mean the torrent that was posted quite some while ago where people could download all the logs? That one is not maintained, and I don't think the vast majority of users cares about this. > I'm not too surprised to see my plugins break; whiteonblack.py isn't > too hard to emulate in the preferences by setting default text and > background colors, and schedbar.py wasn't that important. But I will > miss cat_colors.py - I found that useful. Not exactly sure how cat_colors functioned, but the role of 1.x categories is partially taken over by 2.x tags and partially by 2.x card types. Specifically, for each card type, you can set the background colour. I have different card types for each of my languages (using the clone card type option), and use a different colour for each of them. > Good to see some useful default plugins available; hopefully that > selection will be considerably larger by release! > Although I doubt I > will go back through all my existing Cloze deletions and maps. :) If you used cards created by Tim's svg2quiz, with answers on top of questions, the upgrade process should have migrated them to the new Map card type. > I noticed the Delete key no longer seems to be bound to the delete > dialogue? I looked in the menu and it's now Backspace, but that > doesn't work either! I try, and the terminal output is > "QAction::eventFilter: Ambiguous shortcut overload: Backspace". You mean on the main window? It works on my machine... Perhaps it's related to a different Qt version? > The statistics looks quite nice. I like the graphs as far forwards as > a year - seeing the # of cards bounce wildly up and down but still a > clear sort of radioactive decay curve is a vivid illustration of the > forgetting curve (http://i.imgur.com/X7hdi.png although one wonders > how # of reviews can go to 0 at any point). At any point in time, there will always be a card which is currently scheduled furthest into the future. After that time, there are no more repetitions scheduled, obviously. Of course, after doing a few more days worth of reviews, the newly scheduled cards will cause that zero-review date to have shifted to the future. > But I'm a little confused > by the 'retention score', which sounds like the statistic I would find > most useful in my lithium experiment - it seems to be all or nothing, > and almost always 'all', which is not very useful at all: > http://i.imgur.com/RyHMd.png The definition of retention score is: correctly answered scheduled cards / total number of scheduled cards with scheduled cards being those with a grade >=2 earlier. Your problems might be related to the historical log data not importing properly. If you send me your old .mnemosyne directory, I will take a look at this. Future reviews should be fine, though. > C-d no longer goes to the card browser? It's C-b now. > The new card browser is > interesting. Not sure I like it, but I do have one suggestion: on my > screen, a vast amount of whitespace goes unused because it's just > padding all the metadata fields. 'Easiness' or 'Acqusition reps' need > no more than 3 characters of horizontal space, yet get more like > 10-20! Nor am I sure some of the fields are worth displaying, like > 'Lapses'. On my machine, the default column width does not look too bad, but again different Qt versions might be the cause. Anyway, you can resize and reorder columns to your heart's content. (popups explaining that you can do this will appear after you use the card browser for a while) > An oddity: I went to fix a card which called a sound file which had > been misnamed, but even changing it to the misname, it didn't work. It > was definitely there in my original .mnemosyne but wasn't in the 2.0 > folder! I noticed the same thing with an image. If you tell me which cards they were, I'll take a look at it. BTW, since you seem to have had quite a few import issues, I suggest you keep on doing your daily reps in 1.x until I've had a chance to look at them, at which point you can remigrate to 2.0, by deleting ./dot_mnemosyne2, or by installing it system-wide and letting mnemosyne use the .local/share directories. > I haven't tried the 'compact' option but the delete-unused media > option is kind of scary since now I don't especially trust Mnemosyne > to have imported all the original media... That's why you can untick it :-) Actually, you can breathe sigh of relief because just last week Mnemosyne would have automatically deleted all the media it found orphaned! > I notice that there's still a distinction between 'Open' and 'Import'. Yes, because import adds cards to your current database, and open opens another database. Anyway, thanks for taking the time to write detailed feedback, much appreciated! 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