If you don't want to deal with the grading continuum, don't. Grade everything a 0 or 1 (if you don't know it) and a 4 if you do. Nothing bad will happen; you still get things you know less often and things you forget more often. That's basically Leitner anyway.
This isn't directed at you specifically, but your post made me think of it. Having used mnemo a few years now and watching this mailing list pretty closely I've seen an idea surface over and over again; and that is what happens if I do something outside the "perfect" parameters; the 2 biggest being "what if I miss days?", "oh my, I've graded a card wrong; what do I do?" The answer is, "nothing". It's no big deal. Let it go. If you graded it too HIGH, you may forget it next time, which will be taken care of by your 0 or 1 grade when you next see it. If you grade it too low, you'll see it earlier than you would have otherwise, and what's the big deal? And for missed days, just do what you can when you can. It can be shown that assuming you remember at least some of the time from day to day, you can do 1 card a day and *eventually* get through an arbitrarily large stack. Ones memory is such a fluid dynamic thing that trying to curve-fit SM2 (or any algorithm) to it just isn't possible, or beneficial. Your memory may kick ass today, and absolute shite tomorrow; no algorithm can hope to model that. And each person is different too. I think these fine-tuning exercises I see people attempting, while perhaps fun, are of little to no actual benefit. The benefit comes from doing, not tweaking. I'm sure Peter or Gwern have some studies at hand that might have more information. So, make a best effort on grading, and try to do it daily or at least as often as you can, and it'll work fine. This isn't an optimization exercise, it's just meant to reduce work that may not be necessary. On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 3:40 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for all the replies. I will do some more testing to see if I like > the SM2 stuff. In my head I really think I would much prefer the leitner. > Probably mainly due to there having less ambiguity. (You either know it or > you don't) It becomes much too emotionally taxing, (for some individuals) > to properly categories it as a 1,2,3,4, or 5 card. But that is what SM2 is > so I might as well give it a shot. ^_^ > > Also thanks for that little trick on getting tomorrow's cards done. A bit > tedious but it does the job. > > -- > 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]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mnemosyne-proj-users/-/4aTzHAqSo08J. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
