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by mabster 313 days ago
On the scheduling end, I'm surprised the article didn't mention https://github.com/fasiha/ebisu which uses Bayesian statistics.

When I was studying Japanese, I was thinking how it's always best to learn words in sentences and that it would be good if the sentences for a particular word were random.

Extending that, the sentences could be picked such that the other words are words scheduled for today meaning much more bang for buck per learning hour.
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jarrett-ye 313 days ago
Ebisu v2 doesn't perform well in our SRS Benchmark: https://github.com/open-spaced-repetition/srs-benchmark#:~:t...
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cosmic_cheese 313 days ago
> When I was studying Japanese, I was thinking how it's always best to learn words in sentences and that it would be good if the sentences for a particular word were random.

>Extending that, the sentences could be picked such that the other words are words scheduled for today meaning much more bang for buck per learning hour.

Just the other day I was thinking about how there’s a good chunk of vocab that could be “mined” from the sentences in my vocab deck.

I think that this idea would work well, but would probably require a whole new SRS program to be able to implement it cleanly. It’s too dynamic for a traditional SRS app like Anki which is pretty static in nature.

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wahnfrieden 313 days ago
I’m working on this with Manabi Reader for Japanese

https://reader.manabi.io

It has Anki integration or its own SM2 flashcards app (soon FSRS). And it passively collects a personal corpus of sentences from any web/ebook material you open (manga up next).

I plan to add more sophisticated sync between the reading and reviewing such that cards can be more dynamically based on relevant personal corpus content, and where reading (on the web or in books, outside flashcards) would auto-review any flashcards you have (or which you create in the future).

There really shouldn’t be any difference between encountering a word in something you’re reading and reviewing it on a flashcard. And it would be nice to revisit reading material with guidance from FSRS, to find N+1 sentences for learning new words and to find excerpts containing words that are due for review.

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