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

[Andreas G. <agr...@ya...>]

> > <snip. In my restaurant example, it doesn't help much if I don't feed
> > this vocabulary into a separate database using low grades to enforce
> > frequent and focused repetition (aka drilling exercise)
> 
> I am not sure if I get you here, but I definitely don't agree with last 
> sentence. You shouldn't have to "enforce" anything.
> It's MemAid role to guess how difficult every item is and schedule 
> accordingly!

I agree that we disagree. Our main difference is that you are talking
about difficulty, and I am *also* talking about importance.

During a (hopefully) normal and structured learning process, memaid
helps a lot. No dissent here.

But what, if I absolutely and unconditionally need some knowledge
tomorrow? Ok, tomorrow might be a bit too exagerated. Let's say in a
month's time I have an exam on some stuff. How to make sure, exams'
contents will be covered by memaid. Again, the problems lies partially
in difficulty. but mainly in importance. I would happily forget some
other items (scheduled for repetition) if I would recall the items at
hand for the exam.


> Especially new code I am working on - among other things it will have a smart 
> "Finall Drill" feature that will work automagically, and there will be no 
> normal "Finall Drill" - everything should be automated and it is MemAid 'who' 
> should worry about enforcing and proper scheduling repetitions, not human.

Agree here. But still then: Man overrides Machine - Assimov's 2nd law of
robots? - not sure, will have to learn again. Sigh. ;-)

> Now, I understand one may be interested in having a higher retention rate for 
> particular items (e.g. specific category) - and only "retention rate" should 
> be in MemAid's options to set (not difficulty of specific items - MemAid 
> should handle well elements with very various difficulty).

I am not sure I understand this correctly. Is "higher retention rate"
synonymus to "prefered item to learn, overriding other items in
priority, normally scheduled for today" ?


Sorry to hear about your financial distress. Are you saying that you are
about to create a new "commercial" branch of memaid to generate you some
income? If so, where's the problem? I would definitely keep my fingers
crossed for you. Speaking for myself, I feel you have already given
much, so maybe it's time to think of yourself. Best of luck!

Andreas