If you deem it worthy, I'd be honored to have it memorialized =)
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Peter Bienstman <[email protected]>wrote: > Michael, great post! I agree completely. > > I'll see if I find a good place to place this on our website (with credit > to you of course). > > Peter > > > On 11/20/2012 03:01 PM, Michael Campbell wrote: > >> 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] >> <mailto:[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 >> >> mnemosyne-proj-users@**googlegroups.com<[email protected]> >> >> <mailto:mnemosyne-proj-users@**googlegroups.com<[email protected]> >> >. >> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> >> mnemosyne-proj-users+**[email protected]<mnemosyne-proj-users%[email protected]> >> >> <mailto:mnemosyne-proj-users%**[email protected]<mnemosyne-proj-users%[email protected]> >> **>. >> >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/**msg/mnemosyne-proj-users/-/** >> 4aTzHAqSo08J<https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mnemosyne-proj-users/-/4aTzHAqSo08J> >> . >> For more options, visit >> https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<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 mnemosyne-proj-users@** >> googlegroups.com <[email protected]>. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> mnemosyne-proj-users+**[email protected]<mnemosyne-proj-users%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit >> https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> >> . >> >> >> > -- > Peter Bienstman > Ghent University, Dept. of Information Technology > Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, B-9000 Gent, Belgium > tel: +32 9 264 34 46, fax: +32 9 264 35 93 > WWW: http://photonics.intec.UGent.**be <http://photonics.intec.UGent.be> > email: [email protected] > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. > To post to this group, send email to mnemosyne-proj-users@** > googlegroups.com <[email protected]>. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mnemosyne-proj-users+** > [email protected]<mnemosyne-proj-users%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit > https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> > . > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. 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