To Eric Grannan: That idea, probability / x instead of interval * x, is worth thinking about.
On Oct 31, 12:37 am, Eric Grannan <egran...@gmail.com> wrote: > I wrote a perl script (hey, I don't know python...) to calculate from > the xml file what seems to me like an obvious statistic showing how > much work your deck is going to be. I think of this as the "expected > cards per day" statistic, and It just adds up the reciprocal of each > cards "current interval". By current interval I just mean the interval > a card was given when it was last reviewed, e.g. a card that was > initially viewed 90 days ago and is now due in 10 days still has an > interval of 100. > > The idea is that it tells roughly how many cards you expect to see > each day, smoothing out the randomness in the actual daily card > counts. In fact, you could implement a probabalistic pseudo-Leitner > scheme by picking cards randomly, so instead of giving a card an > interval of 100 you have a 1/100 chance of seeing it every day. For > this scheme the statistic would actually tell you how many cards you'd > expect to see each day. > > I find it fun to follow the evolution of the "expected cards" > statistic, and it also helps monitor how fast to add cards so that > things don't get away from you. > > For example the current output from my Japanese deck is: > > 6234 62.54 1.861 > <2 6 4.50 > <10 78 10.84 > <30 333 17.68 > <100 887 14.91 > <300 1595 9.25 > <1000 2625 4.76 > over 710 0.59 > > this shows that the deck has 6,234 cards, the "expected cards per day" > statistic is 62.54, and the average difficulty is 1.861. > > There are 6 cards with 2 or less days to review which contribute 4.50 > to the "expected cards" statistic, 78 cards with less than 10 days to > review which contribute 10.84, etc.... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to mnemosyne-proj-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mnemosyne-proj-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
