The SuperMemo site had wide ranging papers that go on forever about your thoughts and more. However: try changing to a system logic that is satisfied with taking useful results as a more educated substitute for being right or wrong.
On 29 Nov 2012, at 15:25, [email protected] wrote: > Hello everyone, > > So I have been using Mnemosyne for about 1 1/2 months now. I thought it would > be good to help with all the homework and studying I get here in college. I > have a question for you and your dog that uses Mnemosyne: > > Is anyone afraid that they aren't playing nice with the algorithm? > > Essentially this: I want to help the algorithm help me. I understand there is > a very intelligent algorithm at work here, and I am curious to know if > there's a way of using the program that's more right/wrong? > > You could try to use it to make pancakes, but that's obviously not what I'm > saying. > > Let me give you an example instead. I open up Mnemosyne, and I go through my > daily repetitions. Along the way I encounter a card that I got mostly right, > but not entirely right. Is that a 2 or a 4? or neither? > After I finish my repetitions, I begin to start memorizing new cards. This is > where I start to get paranoid. > See, the way I study is to go over the 15 or so cards that I repeatedly use, > over and over, grading them 1 each time, until I feel comfortable that they > are properly ingrained in my head. Critical logic WILL set you in the direction of being paranoid. "I encounter a card that I got mostly right but not entirely." Change that question from "Is that a 2 or a 4 or neither ?" to "How can I grade that for the most useful timing in subsequent repetitions ?" Where "How can I grade that ?" means for me; not for the world of Mnemosyne and SuperMemo. > Am I screwing with the system when I do this? Am I supposed to mark them a 2 > as soon as I can recite the answer? The average user is supposed to, yes, and learn to live with the very efficient results. > If anyone involved/knowledgeable in the algorithm could reply, I would be > much in gratitude. Good luck, George -- 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.
