Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Unable to install due to "Access Privileges"

2024-11-07 Thread Oisín Mac Fhearaí
od +x mnemo-tmp.sh sudo ./mnemo-tmp.sh I don't use Macs these days so can't test -- apologies if that doesn't help at all. Oisín On Thu, 7 Nov 2024 at 21:20, Lila Low-Beinart wrote: > I'm realizing I'm not sure exactly what to copy into terminal from the > fol

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Flashcards and language learning

2023-07-01 Thread Oisín Mac Fhearaí
ions. I still find flashcards handy for getting started with "basic fact" information, but mostly for other topics rather than language learning. Thanks for sharing your insights on this. Oisín On Sat, 1 Jul 2023 at 11:11, Peter Bienstman wrote: > Hi, > > Not sure if this is

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] How can I reset internal sync info?

2021-11-23 Thread Oisín Mac Fhearaí
I'm not sure why the maximum value would be big enough to overflow a signed int. Maybe it's a 32 bit int in the Android client, so when it's syncing really large files for example (>2gb?) it could trigger this overflow since it uses the total size of the files as the range for the progress bar ( ht

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: next rep date

2021-04-30 Thread Oisín Mac Fhearaí
But the dates are years away because you probably know those cards quite well already. I think people tend to worry that they'll forget the cards because the next review date is unrealistic, but if there's a ton of cards then resetting them all is probably just creating extra "fake work" that slows

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Google text-to-speech error

2021-02-02 Thread Oisín Mac Fhearaí
an you check if they're set to something like "en-US" and replace them with "en" to see if that helps? Oisín On Tue, 2 Feb 2021 at 20:08, W NW wrote: > Hi, thanks for taking time. > > Under Windows 7 I have been using Mnemosyne 2.7.3 since it was published > w

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Subject: Shot the installation – Please help!

2021-01-15 Thread Oisín Mac Fhearaí
quot;site-packages". But even still, every few months I'll run into problems and have to reinstall things. Well, it makes things exciting at least. Oisín On Fri, 15 Jan 2021 at 23:42, Carsten Alexander wrote: > Peter, > > > If you have troubles installing Pyqt5, that'

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Problems with latex

2020-10-06 Thread Oisín Mac Fhearaí
It seems like a conflict between two versions of Matplotlib. Is it possible that a different version is installed globally that takes precedence over whatever is in that mpl-data directory (which I'm not familiar with)? On Tue, 6 Oct 2020, 07:23 Peter Bienstman, wrote: > What exactly are you doi

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Mnemosyne is crashing often on Ubuntu 18.04

2019-12-11 Thread Oisín Mac Fhearaí
I've observed the same problem many times. It's a problem with the open source nouveau driver for Nvidia cards, as Andreas points out. Unfortunately I've had poor experiences with this driver on two different machines, and it's both difficult to debug and apparently low priority in the Linux world.

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Mnemosyne will not launch -- Import error - QtWebEngineWidgets

2019-09-18 Thread Oisín Mac Fhearaí
I'm glad it worked for you Kevin! Yes, perhaps we should add this to a troubleshooting / FAQ section of the Mnemosyne homepage. Peter, what do you think? On Tue, 17 Sep 2019, 01:52 MrJay, wrote: > > > On Sunday, 15 September 2019 15:48:49 UTC-4, Oisín Mac Fhearaí wrote: >>

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Mnemosyne will not launch -- Import error - QtWebEngineWidgets

2019-09-15 Thread Oisín Mac Fhearaí
5 sip PyQtWebEngine Oisín On Sun, 15 Sep 2019 at 18:26, MrJay wrote: > > > On Sunday, 15 September 2019 06:04:05 UTC-4, Oisín Mac Fhearaí wrote: > > Greetings Oisin. > Thank you for taking an interest in this thread. > > I'm curious if your active Python is not the system inst

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Mnemosyne will not launch -- Import error - QtWebEngineWidgets

2019-09-15 Thread Oisín Mac Fhearaí
I'm curious if your active Python is not the system installed one. Perhaps you could try these commands: which python3 pip3 install PyQtWebEngine If the install fails due to a permission error, try: pip3 install --user PyQtWebEngine Oisín On Sun, 15 Sep 2019, 05:12 Peter Bienstman,

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Continuous mode: ie show, pause, show-next

2019-08-30 Thread Oisín Mac Fhearaí
On Sat, 24 Aug 2019, 11:34 David Goadby, wrote: > I love mnemosyne. I am using it to improve my Welsh vocabulary mainly. > > Now, from time to time, it would be nice to have a rolling display of my > words without having to press a key and enter a score. Then I can do other > stuff on my PC and j

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] RE "Target Machine actively refused it"

2019-04-01 Thread Oisín Mac Fhearaí
The error message sounds more like a firewall blocked access to the intended port. Maybe you can temporarily disable your firewall to test it? If it works, then you can add an exception to allow it to work as normal. On Mon, 1 Apr 2019 at 23:40, Heidi Woolford wrote: > Hi Peter, > > How are you?

[mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Install / Run problem on linux: device not open, and shader not linked

2018-09-24 Thread Oisín Mac Fhearaí
On Monday, September 24, 2018 at 7:51:44 PM UTC+1, Andreas wrote: > > Dear all, > I contacted Robert; however, I also tried to install from the tarball: > I got a bit further - the default python on my system was python2, which I > changed now to python3. > > However, the version compiled from t

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] I started getting this error without updating mnemosyne

2018-07-15 Thread Oisín Mac Fhearaí
Looks like your Mnemosyne files are stored on an external drive which is mounted with the wrong permissions. I don't know what OS you're running, but guessing Ubuntu or some other Debian-based system. You could try the brute force "chown -R federico:federico /media/federico", but it might be better

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Synching attempt rejected.

2018-05-08 Thread Oisín Mac Fhearaí
It sounds like the machine has changed its IP address, or your tablet is now on a different network. I'd suggest doublechecking on the PC and making sure the tablet is on the same LAN. Also check that the sync server is actually still running because the first error you quoted seemed to contradict

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] question regarding angel brackets <>

2017-04-29 Thread Oisín Mac Fhearaí
Maybe it's being interpreted as HTML tags. You could try using HTML entities instead: #include On 29 Apr 2017 12:57 pm, wrote: When I put some text in a card included in brackets like for example in " #include " only " #include " is displayed. These brackets seem to have a special me

RE: [mnemosyne-proj-users] attach a PDF file

2017-04-29 Thread Oisín Mac Fhearaí
I think that even if this was supported, it would be a misuse of the program. The answer part of the card is supposed to be a narrowly focused atom of information. A tutorial or even a short list is not a good format and will lead to poor results. It's better to extract the core steps in the tutor

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Help converting a file from Genius (Mac native software) to Mnemosyne

2016-10-04 Thread Oisín Mac Fhearaí
If you can find the file in Terminal (command prompt), you could do something like this: sed "28070q;d" broken-file.txt And you can probably do this if it "looks" okay but may have missing or extra tab characters, for example: sed "28070q;d" broken-file.txt | hexdump -C On 4 October 2016 at 15:

RE: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Mnemosyne 2.3.6 released

2016-07-21 Thread Oisín Mac Fhearaí
If you have the basic Android development tools on your desktop machine, you could plug the phone in and run "adb logcat" to see if there was a stacktrace that would pinpoint the error. http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/86384/how-to-get-why-an-app-crashed On 21 Jul 2016 8:38 a.m., "Peter

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Greetings from Mexico

2016-04-26 Thread Oisín Mac Fhearaí
Depends on what kind of knowledge. I put some piano sheet music on flashcards in Mnemosyne a few years ago and it worked pretty well, although I didn't keep up with that deck after passing the exam. Also made some flashcards recently for memorising Rubik's algorithms, but I devised a mnemonic sche

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: How to learn algorithms using spaced repetition

2016-01-29 Thread Oisín Mac Fhearaí
I'd agree with Peter in general for this kind of stuff; it's probably better to rewrite the code from scratch a couple of times (maybe a few different ways), and play some code golf or whatnot. However if you want to use SRS, I'd advise to reduce the code to higher level pseudocode (i.e. not "for(

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] How can I print physical cards?

2015-12-21 Thread Oisín Mac Fhearaí
Perhaps there is a plugin for this already? It seems like a nice feature, albeit outside the program's scope - that is, to keep track of and manage your revision schedule based on the "forgetting curve" principles. On 21 Dec 2015 05:34, "Peter Bienstman" wrote: > Hi, > > Apart from exporting your

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Installing Mnemosyne

2014-10-24 Thread Oisín
On 24 October 2014 12:31, Aditya Singh wrote: > Yes, this is the first time I'm trying to install Mnemosyne. Sorry, I > should have mentioned that in the beginning. > All the results after searching for 'Mnemosyne' in the system point to > Mnemosyne folder in Program Files (x86). > > Adi > > Is i

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Using latex

2014-09-27 Thread Oisín
Perhaps rather than whining about it, you could document the steps you used to solve the problem so other people can be helped in future. On 27 Sep 2014 15:52, "Neil Bowser" wrote: > I've sorted it. No thanks to anyone on here. > > > > On Friday, 26 September 2014 14:09:16 UTC+1, Neil Bowser wrot

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] New bugs

2014-09-14 Thread Oisín
Before jumping to the conclusion that there is a "serious flaw" and bugs in the import process, perhaps it would be a good idea to attach the file you imported from so others can test and investigate properly? BTW it's generally a useful approach to give software the benefit of the doubt before co

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: [2.2.1] Error on Settings / Configure Mnemosyne

2014-09-11 Thread Oisín
On 11 September 2014 08:44, wrote: > Oh OK. > > Anf if we do a simple... > > rm -rf `cat list_files_or_folders_of_Mnemosyne` > > ...would be at least something for those who don't know how to uninstall > it, in order to install the last version and to avoid some problem and > posts in the groups

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Hacking the Mnemosyne databse

2014-09-02 Thread Oisín
Would exporting and re-importing the deck at this point sidestep the potential sync issues? On 2 September 2014 17:30, Peter Bienstman wrote: > Then I will not be able to help you if you run into sync problems... > > Peter > > > -Original Message- > > From: mnemosyne-proj-users@googlegr

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Maximum number of cards with graphics in Mnemosyne?

2014-08-21 Thread Oisín
I don't think the entire deck is loaded into RAM at once, and certainly images are not; rather, they're loaded on demand (i.e. as the card is being displayed) and can be removed automatically from memory afterwards thanks to the magic of garbage collection. The size of the "cards" themselves is ver

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] PETER PERSONAL REQUEST THANK YOU

2014-06-13 Thread Oisín
On 13 June 2014 19:55, Francesco Ariis wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 10:50:04AM -0700, annonymous wrote: > > Thank you for your help. I just wanted to ask if you could please > > delete my email from the message I just sent; it is > peacenati...@gmail.com. > > I did not realize it would come

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Too many words to review

2014-06-02 Thread Oisín
On 2 June 2014 22:02, HardRus HadRus wrote: > I see, but I have to add more than 15 words per day, because 15 isn't > enough for me. I usually add 40-50 words per day. > > Well, you've now discovered that 40-50 words per day is too much for you, because the reviews start adding up quickly. Even 1

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Norton removing Mnemosyne 2.3 as unsafe program

2014-05-26 Thread Oisín
I don't know anything about Norton Internet Security, but out of curiosity I ran the installer through Jotti's malware scan, which tested the file with 22 scanners. None of them reported that they had detected a virus. You can check the results here: http://virusscan.jotti.org/en-gb/scanresult/e6b

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Mnemosyne Studylock- A tool for those with severe ADHD

2014-03-11 Thread Oisín
> why. > I've not tested it yet, but will try when I get home later. all the best, Oisín > > On Monday, March 10, 2014 8:03:23 PM UTC+9, Oisín Mac Fhearaí wrote: > >> On 10 March 2014 07:44, Alex . wrote: >> >>> >>> -Random User presence test:

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Mnemosyne Studylock- A tool for those with severe ADHD

2014-03-10 Thread Oisín
On 10 March 2014 07:44, Alex . wrote: > > -Random User presence test: > Now a test will occur at random times during the study lock > in which the user will have 10 seconds to follow an instruction on the > console or receive a time penalty of 100 seconds. > This is to e

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Spaced repetition with gamification elements

2014-01-03 Thread Oisín
h mnemonics/animations etc, although I don't know if any significant work has been done to quantify the benefits of it all. Haven't heard of any efforts to gamify Mnemosyne, although with the plugin system almost anything is theoretically possible. Oisín Thanks, > Mads > > *)

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] What is the last .dmg version of Mnemosyne that will run on Mac Leopard 10.5.8?

2013-11-26 Thread Oisín
rs/s6cE3AAVbWk#%21topic/mnemosyne-proj-users/s6cE3AAVbWk > >, > from Oisín Mac Fhearaí, stating "Starting with version 2.2.1, Mnemosyne > once again runs on OS X Leopard (10.5) for Intel machines". Is that > referring to Mnemosyne installed from source as opposed to insta

[mnemosyne-proj-users] A bridge between cramming and "classic" SRS?

2013-10-28 Thread Oisín
ing under three conditions: 1) control, 2) classic SRS (with a minimum resolution of 1 day) and 3) classic SRS supplemented by the study->distraction->review->distraction->review pattern described in the paper. Oisín [1] http://www.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhu

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] I cannot add XML cards

2013-09-20 Thread Oisín
That's a very old version of Mnemosyne. The current version is 2.2.1 - if a recent version isn't available on Ubuntu's package repositories, then maybe you can try one of these deb files (something like "sudo dpkg -i mnemosyne-2.2.1.deb"): http://packages.debian.org/jessie/mnemosyne On 20 Septem

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Problems trying to download shared cards off web onto Mac. Mnemosyne - TMP has deleted all my cards

2013-09-16 Thread Oisín
On 15 September 2013 22:58, wrote: > Hi > > When i do file - open it goes to the /downloads/ folder? > I tried going to the /library/ folder manually but there was no mnemsoyne > folder in there. > > THanks again in advance > In the "Open" dialogue box, type the tilde character "~". A smaller al

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Encouraging SRS use in the classroom: Bailey 2013

2013-09-12 Thread Oisín
w. Personally, I was hooked on SRS ever since good old Pauker - once you start adding new vocabulary to the deck, you can trust that you'll never "lose" a word... you might forget it temporarily, but the SRS will catch it and automatically prioritise it. Less worry, way better ef

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Usefulness of 'Production' of term from native language

2013-09-06 Thread Oisín
e further insights. The question of whether that benefit is worth _double_ your time, if that is the case, is also an interesting one. For a start, it would be useful to know exactly how much workload is involved in both modes of study. Oisín -- You received this message because you are subscrib

[mnemosyne-proj-users] Mnemosyne on Mac OS X 10.5

2013-05-12 Thread Oisín
tting up the Mac build framework. ta, Oisín -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mnemosyne-proj-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Mnemosyne 2.0 for OS X (10.6-10.8) released

2013-05-10 Thread Oisín Mac Fhearaí
On Friday, May 10, 2013 1:02:25 AM UTC+1, Oisín Mac Fhearaí wrote: > > Hi, > > This may or may not work, but I've just built a distributable version that > works on my laptop running Leopard. > Feel free to download the massive (74MB zipped!) application from > http:

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Mnemosyne 2.0 for OS X (10.6-10.8) released

2013-05-09 Thread Oisín
e but not anyone else's for all I know... best of luck, Oisín On 7 May 2013 01:19, wrote: > If you figure out a way to get it to work on a 32-bit processor, please > let me know. I don't think I can realistically build it from source, so it > looks like I will have to jump shi

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Language learning and retention rate

2013-04-24 Thread Oisín
When I'm not falling behind on reviews, average about 85% in Chinese. When I'm working under a backlog (often), it's way down, between 70-80% maybe. As you'd expect, this gets worse depending on how long I've been backlogged! On 22 April 2013 18:54, Gnome wrote: > I'm between 70-90% usually, mi

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] "answerbox: overlay" in Mnemosyne 2.x

2013-03-14 Thread Oisín
t4 and Mnemosyne do support SVG, which is the most ubiquitous and portable vector file format nowadays. You can use Scribus and probably Inkscape to convert an EPS file into SVG format, which will then work in Mnemosyne! Oisín On 03/14/2013 12:56 AM, Marcelo Durgante wrote: > >> Thanks

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: http://www.flashcardexchange.com/

2013-03-08 Thread Oisín
On 7 March 2013 20:30, Vit wrote: > , m.wun...@gmail.com wrote: > > Collaborative flashcard sets are the only thing that is worth it. > > --Vit: > I checked one Tatoeba collection { as Oisin pointed out}; > 3 out of 10 were seriously flawed - as shown below. > > My train left at six

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: http://www.flashcardexchange.com/

2013-03-07 Thread Oisín
ecognition, I just found this: http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/1-sentences-is-dead-long-live-mcds ). Oisín > On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 2:55 AM, m.wunderli wrote: >> > collaborativ flashcard set are the only thing that is worth it. >> >> -- > You received t

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Request to "Activate one language for the Front, another one - for the Back" with one click :-)

2013-02-25 Thread Oisín
choose hotkeys for each one. For example, mine has "Ctrl-Shift-0" to switch to Chinese text input, and "Ctrl-Shift-9" to switch to Irish/English. You'll quickly get used to hitting your hotkeys instantly to switch to the required language. Hope this helps, Oisín > Tha

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: mnemosyne-webserver blues

2013-02-09 Thread Oisín
t's possible for software to ask the router to set up port forwarding rules through some protocols - this is commonly done by Bittorrent software. It's also possible, but unlikely, that a router has been misconfigured to set your PC as the DMZ. So indeed it is worth checking whether your ports

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Installing plugins

2013-02-07 Thread Oisín
closes. > > Any idea what's going on? I hope this doesn't mean my current decks and > their respective information are lost... > > Nope. Try running the uninstaller first, then run the v2 installer? Myself and a few others experienced a similar crash after upgrading to v2 w

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: The "Correct" Process? OR How to Play Well with an Algorithm

2012-12-06 Thread Oisín
On 6 December 2012 20:26, pharmtech wrote: > > For me (with Anki 1.2) cramming worked very well when it employed SRS- > style ordering and spacing. I might review 20 times per day, with > cards coming due in 10 minutes to 10 hours. My performance fed back > into the scheduling, influencing relati

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: The "Correct" Process? OR How to Play Well with an Algorithm

2012-12-06 Thread Oisín
h students who cram tend to spend more hours studying, which is of course a useful thing in itself. Oisín -- 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.co

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: The "Correct" Process? OR How to Play Well with an Algorithm

2012-12-03 Thread Oisín
sweat it too much. It's probably a better use of your time to assume that you'll remember a card tomorrow and risk occasional failures, than to repeatedly grade them 1 and cram them. A good place to find out lots of well-referenced information about spaced repetition is Gwern's page on t

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Do back everything up: Installing 2.1 on my Mac deleted all my cards

2012-11-08 Thread Oisín
If for some reason, the backup directory was not writeable (e.g. it was a normal file rather than a directory, or the permissions were wrong) would the upgrade process have aborted? But in any case, I really can't stress enough how important it is to back up your important files regularly. Of cour

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: 2 Scheduled Cards a Day ?

2012-10-22 Thread Oisín
On 22 October 2012 00:11, Michael Campbell wrote: > > There are probably many other ways to work through it, but these are > some I've used. For what it's worth, I try to work through until I > get the dialog. But I have a couple different decks that I work > through every day, and due to some d

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Problems upon installing 2.0 Mnemosyne

2012-10-15 Thread Oisín
On 15 October 2012 14:00, NotSoHappy wrote: > I have been using Mnemosyne for about 4 years. Only this morning did i > upgrade to version 2.0. I checked carefully whether i needed to uninstall > the old version first. I also checked carefully whether i needed to do > something with the big databa

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] mnemosynei386.sys?

2012-09-26 Thread Oisín
On 26 September 2012 09:30, wrote: > Hi, > > I am the IT guy for my company and we are seeing a "mnemosynei386.sys" > file showing up and we are not sure what it is. Is this something to do > with this software? > > I downloaded a few different versions and installed them and none of them > had

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Mnemosyne doesn't start anymore, on max os x: uncaught exception

2012-09-06 Thread Oisín
On 4 September 2012 18:30, Peter Bienstman wrote: > Quoting ferdinando.cerr...@gmail.com: > > Nothing. The directory doesn't exist. Could you tell me a program through >>> wich i can open mnemosyne database files or import them? >>> >>> rm ~/Library/Mnemosyne/config >>> >> > I'm afraid I don't k

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Problem with Mnemogogo 2.0.4

2012-09-03 Thread Oisín
On 3 September 2012 15:43, Chris wrote: > > > Am Montag, 3. September 2012 17:18:48 UTC+2 schrieb Oisín Mac Fhearaí: > > >> ... >> >> In the end, I downloaded some software which allowed me to read the >> phone's firmware and flash it back with some d

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Problem with Mnemogogo 2.0.4

2012-09-03 Thread Oisín
y J2ME application. Obviously a poor solution, but apparently the only one for these devices. Also, I wouldn't recommend it for non-technical users, as you can ruin your phone, which might require special hardware to fix. I look forward to a simpler, more productive development and deplo

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Runtime Error on launch

2012-08-24 Thread Oisín
On 24 August 2012 21:27, Timothy Bourke wrote: > Hello, > > Someone asked me to post their Mnemosyne problem to the list. > > When they launch Mnemosyne 2.0.1 on their Windows 7 PC, an error > dialog appears: > > Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library > > Program: C:\Program Files (x86)\Mne

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] On the value of spaced repetition

2012-08-24 Thread Oisín
On 24 August 2012 21:59, Gwern Branwen wrote: Interesting posts! > So I don’t agree with the extent to which Scott thinks aggressive > learning makes spaced repetition unnecessary. Moreover, he’s overlooking > the “spaced” part of the concept: that *not* repeating, and allowing the > context to

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Software to cover text in graphic?

2012-08-24 Thread Oisín
's one advantage Anki has with its very good multimedia support. best of luck, Oisín > -- > 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 &

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Application of Mnemosyne for learning procedural information

2012-07-30 Thread Oisín
ing a mnemonic approach. There's some interesting ideas on the Supermemo page, where incremental reading and cloze deletion are combined to help learn all sorts of stuff: http://www.supermemo.com/help/read.htm I've not tried that, because it seems like perhaps a little overkill, and frankl

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: help debugging the Windows hangs

2012-07-30 Thread Oisín
On 30 July 2012 08:22, Peter Bienstman wrote: > Quoting Chris : > > Just curious, how does a time zone effect the program? Does this have >>> >> anything to do with why it was affecting all my versions, and would >> usually >> improve if I gave it time? >> > > OK, very glad that the problem is

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: help debugging the Windows hangs

2012-07-26 Thread Oisín
On 26 July 2012 21:51, Chris wrote: > All these boxes have me worried it's somehow warping/distorting my > card-learning history each time I pass a card > > On Thursday, July 26, 2012 1:43:26 PM UTC-7, Chris wrote: >> >> And now in between each card? Is it supposed to be doing this for >> di

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: help debugging the Windows hangs

2012-07-24 Thread Oisín
"Location". In my case this is "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mnemosyne" - is it the same in yours? On 24 July 2012 15:07, Oisín wrote: > Does it make any difference if you use random order scheduling rather than > most urgent first? If we can replicate the conditions that cause

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: help debugging the Windows hangs

2012-07-24 Thread Oisín
make any difference if you use random order scheduling rather than most urgent first? If we can replicate the conditions that cause this hang, the problem will be 80% solved already. It would be nice if you could get a log of every SQL statement before Mnemosyne executes it. Oisín > > O

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: help debugging the Windows hangs

2012-07-22 Thread Oisín
ly allocate memory when processing a statement)? I'm not sure why sqlite would run out of memory even on small test decks, but hopefully Peter will be able to track this down. It'd be nice if there was a log of the SQL statements Mnemosyne tries to execute - this could be a bug in the dat

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: help debugging the Windows hangs

2012-07-22 Thread Oisín
find the main thread is waiting on a call to Qt or sqlite which never completes? The call traces aren't too long, so I'm sure it would be helpful to post them here. Oisín -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" gr

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: help debugging the Windows hangs

2012-07-21 Thread Oisín
On 21 July 2012 11:39, Chris wrote: > Oisín: I could just send you my whole database. I would suppose it could > be some other program interfering with it, but I don't have much stuff on > my computers. And the Linux I ran it on was a fresh install just for it. > I would th

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: help debugging the Windows hangs

2012-07-20 Thread Oisín
, Anyway like I said, if you can create a deck with a very small number of test cards which hangs for you, upload it somewhere and more of us can try to trigger the same behaviour and solve this problem. > On Friday, July 20, 2012 9:35:38 PM UTC-6, Oisín Mac Fhearaí wrote: >> >> ...

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: help debugging the Windows hangs

2012-07-20 Thread Oisín
On 20 July 2012 10:55, Murray James Morrison wrote: > Hi Chris, > > I also have a Windows 7 64-bit desktop running the latest version of > Mnemosyne 2 (and before that, every Beta in between). I have 8000 cards in > my database, but have never had any freezing problems. > > If you need an extra pa

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Freezing mnemosyne during holidays?

2012-07-13 Thread Oisín
On 12 July 2012 20:59, pharmtech wrote: > On Jul 11, 8:39 am, Oisín wrote: > > Is it really more computationally difficult to do? > > Calculating "overdueness" probably isn't difficult. But, I think the > proverbial devils are in the details. For example, most

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: help debugging the Windows hangs

2012-07-13 Thread Oisín
On 13 July 2012 02:55, wrote: > Having the same problem. It freezes after 2 cards. > Windows 7. I even tried running the software in safe mode. same result. > Sorry if this is something people have checked already, but have you tried with a fresh deck? A few days ago I installed the latest test

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Freezing mnemosyne during holidays?

2012-07-11 Thread Oisín
? Surely even on a deck with 100,000 cards, the arithmetic (even in Python... ;) would still take far less than a second. But perhaps the data structures containing the interval and due time are not optimised for this, I don't know. Oisín If you have a card with a 14-day interval come

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Words with multiple meanings

2011-11-04 Thread Oisín
hink Different. > > Not at all, I will gladly steal all of your good ideas for my own use! :) Oisín > George > > > On 03/11/2011 17:35, Oisín wrote: > > On 3 November 2011 20:41, Lindsey wrote: > >> But what do you do about the reverse card? Do you have to get a

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Words with multiple meanings

2011-11-03 Thread Oisín
e same characters on their own. Plus it helps to learn the grammar and common patterns of speech :) Oisín > On Nov 3, 9:59 am, Oisín wrote: > > On 3 November 2011 03:59, Lindsey wrote: > > > > > I'm learning Chinese. You have to memorize at least a couple thousand

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Words with multiple meanings

2011-11-03 Thread Oisín
x27;d be like "can we do more now? Why didn't my Dora words come up?" :D Now I'm using images on the question side, for learning some Rubik's cube algorithms. Hoping that will turn out well... > > On 03/11/2011 09:59, Oisín wrote: > > On 3 November 2011 03:

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Words with multiple meanings

2011-11-03 Thread Oisín
hly) Front: vegetable dish (of food) cuisine (11 strokes; not z/p/d) Back: 菜 cai4 This works ok for me, but I'd be interested to hear of other strategies people are using. I'd definitely agree that this work should be supplemented with outside reading (and TV etc!) Good luck! Oisín >

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Help with this localisation language

2011-10-17 Thread Oisín
On 17 October 2011 05:03, Esther Carrillo wrote: > This is most bizarre particularly because I am surfing the web with no > problems and accessing all other sites. I am at a loss at what could be > wrong with my system and this site only. > Thanks for any ideas, > Esther Hi, Hopefully it's only

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] DMG wont eject

2011-10-10 Thread Oisín
On 9 October 2011 17:54, Drew wrote: > so i downloaded and installed the app, but the disk image wont eject > and gtfo my desktop. I uninstalled the app and it still wont > disappear. Minor annoyance, but this shouldn't happen and i'm getting > frustrated. > Why won't it eject? What's the error

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: beta 3 released

2011-08-27 Thread Oisín
On 27 August 2011 19:12, Peter Bienstman wrote: > Yeah, noticed that too, but I'm afraid that's entirely due to Qt and > beyond our control. Either it's a bug in Qt, or a 'feature'. > > The thing is, when Qt starts to display the table, it does not fetch > the entire data first as that would be t

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Who are the researchers who use the mnemosyne collected data?

2011-06-28 Thread Oisín
On 28 June 2011 15:21, Peter Bienstman wrote: > On Tuesday, June 28, 2011 04:39:43 PM John Salvatier wrote: > > I am interested in looking at the research facilitated by mnemosyne > > data, who are the researchers who use it? > > I plan on looking at the data eventually, but at the moment getting

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Installing Windows Mnemosyne on a USB stick from a Linux computer

2011-06-15 Thread Oisín
y somewhere like "~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Mnemosyne...") to your USB key. I did a quick search and found this though, which may save you the effort: http://portableapps.com/apps/education/mnemosyne_portable Oisín > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to th

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Would it be possible to get larger images with uploaded card sets?!

2011-04-25 Thread Oisín
On 25 April 2011 13:19, mzatanoskas wrote: > Just started downloading a couple of ready made geography decks and I > noticed that the size of the images is often 300x300. I can see that > this is very useful for anyone planning to use a mobile device as > there isn't much screen space, but person

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: How does mnemosyne deal with studying cards and repetitions after a long break?

2011-03-28 Thread Oisín
On 28 March 2011 04:57, Peter Bienstman wrote: > > Here's the relevant code: > >if new_grade == 2 or new_grade == 3: >if actual_interval <= scheduled_interval: >new_interval = actual_interval * item.easiness >else: >

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Estimating popularity of spaced repetition

2011-03-21 Thread Oisín
the important parts of complex material without exploding in number or being massively long. Perhaps cloze deletion would have helped. Oisín > > Mvh. > Randi > > Den 19-03-2011 22:09, Caio Rossi skrev: > > Hello, > I'm Brazilian and teach English as a foreign language down

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Feature requests

2011-03-04 Thread Oisín
> Also knowing that you can enter many cards at once in Mnemosyne using just the > keyboard? > > question > > answer > , , ... to select the initial grade That's how I do it. Even when I needed to programmatically transform the text, I used Applescript and bash scripts to input the results throug

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Dynamic/extensible cards and new areas of study with Mnemosyne

2011-01-08 Thread Oisín
On 8 January 2011 14:10, Matt wrote: > Anecdotally, dazedconfused, your example about piano resonates with > me, as I'm a musician as well. In most of the ensembles or private > instruction settings I've been in, there's been a tacit understanding > that 30 minutes of practice a day for five day

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Dynamic/extensible cards and new areas of study with Mnemosyne

2011-01-06 Thread Oisín
th simple-to-write dynamic cards that would really be useful, outside of perhaps some mathematical things like this or long division. Oisín p.s. I tried to write that example in Lua just now and discovered that you need to give a random seed to get different outputs on each run, AND Lua doesn't offe

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Pausing?

2010-12-08 Thread Oisín
On 7 December 2010 21:52, Chris wrote: > As for Randi, the best advice I can give is take the time to read > through www.supermemo.com/articles/20rules.htm and you should be able > to make fantastic cards. It's a quite long page, but it is > excellent. I use a whole bunch of different technique

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Memory techniques - imagination

2010-11-20 Thread Oisín
its purpose. I've rarely used mnemonics when learning in Mnemosyne though, because I worried that it might circumvent the process of getting things into my long-term memory (i.e. when I have to use a mnemonic to recall an item, is it cheating? Or does it reinforce the "correct" pathwa

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Number of cards scheduled per day

2010-09-23 Thread Oisín
On 23 September 2010 23:02, Michael Campbell wrote: > > I may be misreading what you're saying here, but for me, review is review; > in or out of the system; there is no distinction. Whether or not I remember > what the system is showing me when it shows me only affects my rating of it > going for

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] More thoughts on jpegs / slideshow / screensaver

2010-09-17 Thread Oisín
ots, reduce the number of colours etc, but ImageMagick looks very powerful and simpler to use. Thanks for that! Oisín -- 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-us...@googl

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] More thoughts on jpegs / slideshow / screensaver

2010-09-17 Thread Oisín
range behaviour (presumably due to QT) where you can't set focus on a dialogue (i.e. the add card window) until the mouse cursor is over the main Mnemosyne window and not the window-to-receive-focus. Strange... Oisín -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Group

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Off topic - Best way to organise thoughts, ideas, questions. Software/text files?

2010-09-16 Thread Oisín
On 16 September 2010 20:24, mzatanoskas wrote: > > So I was wondering how other people managed this. Do you have a clever > filing system to manage this? Do you not bother? Or maybe you use mind- > mapping style software? Or twist some non-"thought-organising" > specific filing software to match

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Error on Windows 7, can't do a clean uninstall

2010-09-15 Thread Oisín
On 15 September 2010 13:17, Peter Bienstman wrote: > > One thing that would make this easier to deal with is the option to > > exit without saving the file, because it's really irritating to have > > to shut down from the task manager when it comes up with the Can't > > save file error. > > The pr

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Google text-to-speech

2010-09-04 Thread Oisín
On 27 August 2010 04:48, mzatanoskas wrote: > I've only just got around to testing Google's automatic text to > speech, and to be honest I'm a little disappointed by how machine-like > and 1990s it still sounds. As I said I've been using this text to > speech site (http://www.oddcast.com/home/demo

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