On 02/14/2013 06:48 PM, Vit wrote:
What I don't like are 2 things:
1. cards show up {most of time } either too soon or too late. Both
impede the memorizing progress.
If they show up too soon, grade them 5. If they show up too early, grade
them 2 or 3. That's exactly what these grades are for, since Mnemosyne
cannot telepathically look into your brain :-)
2. Scheduling has no provision to show a card Next day {it may show
up the next day but only when the unknown stars line up for that :-)
}, or in 2,3,4,5 days, etc.
There is some randomness in the scheduler, to help memorisation and to
help spread cards better. I don't see why it's important that the card
shows up the next day as opposed to the day after tomorrow.
Let me also quote Michael Campbell from our website:
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I'm worried I'm doing it wrong!
Mnemosyne user Michael Campbell had this to say on the mailing list:
Having used Mnemosyne a few years now and watching this mailing list
pretty closely I've seen a topic 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.
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