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leosmith
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 Message 49 of 60
31 October 2007 at 10:01am | IP Logged 
Most people like to take a day off occasionally, and have to limit study times on some days. I'd settle for a less optimal app that takes those things into account.
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 Message 50 of 60
31 October 2007 at 10:24am | IP Logged 
But you can already do that with SuperMemo by simply not doing the repetitions. It'll be suboptimal, but so would anything else; that's my point. I still don't understand how what you're asking for is any different than what SuperMemo already offers.

- Kef


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 Message 51 of 60
31 October 2007 at 11:47am | IP Logged 
Am I the only one finding it somewhat fascinating that people let a program take control over themselves, instead of the opposite? :)
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 Message 52 of 60
31 October 2007 at 4:30pm | IP Logged 
jeff_lindqvist wrote:
Am I the only one finding it somewhat fascinating that people let a program take control over themselves, instead of the opposite? :)


Do you drive a manual transmission automobile, or do you let the machine take over control? The analogy could be passed on to just about any technology -- it is a personal choice to decide which systems, machines, programs, etc we trust to unload a portion of the work from ourselves.

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 Message 53 of 60
31 October 2007 at 4:50pm | IP Logged 
jeff_lindqvist wrote:
Am I the only one finding it somewhat fascinating that people let a program take control over themselves, instead of the opposite? :)


Are you mocking us? hehe :-)


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 Message 54 of 60
31 October 2007 at 5:59pm | IP Logged 
I just got confused reading about all this "daily portion", "postpone" et.c. As furrykef said, you can take a day off by simply not doing the repetitions in SuperMemo (or any other program, even a "real" Leitner box). It is not the end of the world, but if somebody wants to program a new software with features (how about user settings such as: "diligent", "average", "lazy", "I'd rather not study"?) that some here seem to want, I'm sure there is a good chance to sell a few copies. ;)
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 Message 55 of 60
31 October 2007 at 6:23pm | IP Logged 
jeff_lindqvist wrote:
I just got confused reading about all this "daily portion", "postpone" et.c. As furrykef said, you can take a day off by simply not doing the repetitions in SuperMemo (or any other program, even a "real" Leitner box). It is not the end of the world, but if somebody wants to program a new software with features (how about user settings such as: "diligent", "average", "lazy", "I'd rather not study"?) that some here seem to want, I'm sure there is a good chance to sell a few copies. ;)


Haha. Human psychology is a very complex thing.
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 Message 56 of 60
01 November 2007 at 6:04am | IP Logged 
furrykef wrote:
But you can already do that with SuperMemo by simply not doing the repetitions. It'll be suboptimal, but so would anything else; that's my point. I still don't understand how what you're asking for is any different than what SuperMemo already offers.

- Kef

From what I've read, it's more complicated than that; that is, it would be more sub-optimal than something that could be designed with the flexibility I'm suggesting. It has something to do with the extremely complicated algorithm. I'm just repeating what I've read elsewhere; I could certainly be wrong.

By the way, is there is a way to force a final drill in sm if one doesn't do all the day's reps?


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