Re: [Memaid-users] Learning vs. Recalling

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

Hi Andreas,

As you know, that's precisely what 'drill-badly-known' in pyqt memaid does: it 
will keep presenting you the items until they get a high enough grade. After 
that, they will just go in the regular neural network learning process.

Cheers,

Peter

On Tuesday 02 December 2003 22:19, Andreas Grau wrote:
> Now, this might be a slippy subject I am touching. Ok, <flame on> for
> who dares - I will defend myself :-)
>
> I recently stumbled upon "MemAid" at sourceforge.net/projects/memaid/
> and must admit that I am fascinated by the underlying concept of an
> adopted staggered re-learning taught by a neural-network.
>
> However, I must admit that I consider memaid a poorer solution when it
> comes to the initial learning process. Memaid, as I understand it,
> relies on finding the best possible *INDIVIDUAL* repetition schedule for
> not forgetting items. While in the process of initial learning, however,
> memaid fails because of current inabilities to differentiate between
> "learning" and "recalling". Personally, I feel there is a difference.
>
> This is where "Pauker" at sourceforge.net/projects/pauker/ comes in. I
> easily grasp the underlying idea and enjoy the system as it stands. It
> offers repetions of items by transfering items from one level (or batch)
> to the other. Only by getting the same item right several times, the
> items gets "promoted" to higher levels/batches.
>
> Now, my wildest dreams would come true if there were a bridge between
> the two: Using Pauker 'till, say, Batch 3, when items have survived my
> short- to mid-term memory deficiencies :-) These items I would like to
> hand over to MemAid to keep them stable in my memory for eternity (or
> until my harddisk dies - whichever comes first :-)
>
> I'd like to get a discussion going on the differences between learning
> and recalling, and where the projects have their individual strengthes
> and weaknesses. I am aware it's a touchy subject, as project initiators
> and their followers usually are quite sentitive towards their respective
> "babies" - but let's keep it rollin' anyway. Remember: it's "Free, as in
> freedom"
>
> Best, Andreas
>
>
>
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