In general I agree. In specifics, ... I think your proposal is fine. If you're learning ahead of time you're "going off the reservation" and subverting the point of the algorithm, so you don't get to have all your comfortable notions about how things should work.
It's like I read physicists talking about black holes; "the laws of physics as we know them break down inside one". Same deal here; you're going into uncharted territory, expect some bumps. ;-) (My opinion only, of course; many reasonable people disagree.) On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Henrik in Oslo <[email protected]> wrote: > Simplicity and stability of the software is more important than > occasionally learning similar items on the same day. > > On Thursday, 10 May 2012 21:26:02 UTC+2, Peter Bienstman wrote: >> >> Mnemosyne currently has a configuration option '(Re)learn sister cards on >> the same day'. However, it's very misleading in the sense that as soon as >> you are running out of new cards to study, Mnemosyne will bring these >> sister cards into the queue to prevent it from running empty. In RC1, I've >> added a warning message to explain that this is happening, but it's proving >> difficult to prevent it from triggering spuriously. >> >> So now I'm currently leaning towards removing that configuration option >> altogether and taking the behaviour when this box was unchecked. This means >> that when learning new cards, Mnemosyne will avoid showing you sister >> cards, unless you are running out of new cards. I'm not sure that >> preventing you from trying to learn the production card when you have >> memorised the recognition card is all that important, and people could get >> confused if they see the 'not memorised' counter non-zero, but still get no >> new cards to study. Sure, you could give a warning message in that case, or >> make the behaviour configurable, but I feel that then we're just replacing >> one combination of a confusing, difficult to understand setting and warning >> message with a different combination of confusing, difficult to understand >> setting and warning message.. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> Peter >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mnemosyne-proj-users/-/hcSiPUTG-0wJ. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > . > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en.
