Re: [Memaid-users] Grade's for vocabulary learing and Categories

[Peter B. <Pet...@UG...>]

On Saturday 29 November 2003 00:02, Andreas Grau wrote:
> I am using kmemaid for learning french vocs. As I don't understand what
> the "NN Training Time" in Settings represents, I started browsing for an
> answer. Unsuccessful, but that's a different story.
>
> What I have found instead is David's explanation on the ANN internals.
> There is written, that Grade 4 is regarded as the optimum, while 5
> implies the user knows the subject too well. And grade 0 is used for
> items never reviewed.
>
> Up to today, I sticked to the following scheme:
>
> Grade 0 : Never heard that word before.
> Grade 1 : Would have understood it, even without knowing it
> Grade 2 : Oh sure! I know it, but just couldn't remember
> Grade 3 : After some thinking, I found it
> Grade 4 : Immediate recall, but with errors (spelling, sex)
> Grade 5 : Immediate and correct recall
>
> I guess with the ANN internal grade interpretation, the above list could
> be improved. But how? Any ideas?

You should use grade 4 as the optimum (correct recall) and grade 5 as 'it was 
too easy, don't bother whith scheduling this item for a long time' 

> Talking about categories, I, for one, would love to see them in memaid.

pyqt_memaid has categories ;-)

Cheers,

Peter

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