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    How To Score Yourself On Repetitions 2

    May 24, 2007
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    This is a repeat of a previous post. I wasn’t happy with the wording the last time, it seemed unclear and difficult to understand. Truth be told, scoring repetitions requires some individual judgment, but much of it, I think, can be standardized. So here’s a second attempt at explaining how to score repetitions. Hopefully this time around things are...

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    How to Score Yourself on Repetitions

    March 26, 2007
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    This advice applies specifically to Mnemosyne, KhatzuMemo and SuperMemo, since they all share a 0 — >5 scoring system. It may well apply to other SRSes, too. The “readings” are of course pronunciations for characters. The “meaning” is the meaning+context+intent of the sentence. Of course, many sentences can have slightly different meanings in different contexts; you should only tackle...

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    KhatzuMemo: Like SuperMemo/Mnemosyne, but web-based

    January 5, 2007
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    Hello everyone! Happy New Year! 謹賀新年！ Lately, I have been silent, but not idle. Here’s the story: As you’re probably aware, in Japan, especially larger cities like Tokyo, there’s a lot of this business of moving around on trains. This leaves a train passenger with lots of free time to do things like stare into space, or stare at...

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    What is an SRS?

    November 24, 2006
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    SRS is short for “spaced repetition system”. Generally speaking, it’s a piece of electronic flashcard-like software that helps you to long-term-memorize large quantities of information by effectively working on only a small subset of the information each day, using spaced repetitions. The idea of spaced repetitions is painfully simple: when you first learn something, you (need to) review it...

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