Comments on: KhatzuMemo Update: Repetition Scheduling Algorithm

By: Prom

Prom — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:01:50 +0000

Hi,

I wonder why the sentences which I’m bad at (and thus get a low score) show up immediately again. Wouldn’t it be better to add them again to the end of the current days stack? So maybe the last item of the day would be asked again and again, but not all of the items i fail once. It’s pretty easy to remember them when they show up immediately again.

Btw. what’s about the mobile version… hard to figure out a solution?

By: quendidil

quendidil — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:07:31 +0000

@khatz
Wow, thanks a lot really! *hugs*

By: Deven

Deven — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 06:13:31 +0000

thank god for Khatzumoto!

wow thank you soo much!!
I’ve been using your SRS (khatzumemo) for like a week now and I’ve been thinking it wasn’t working, but all the sudden, I see myself pressing 4’s and 5’s over and over again now!

I never even knew I could remember this well!
so thank you khatzumoto! you developed the SRS I’m using and you’re the one who first introduced me to the idea of an SRS so I have to thank you for that, and I couldn’t think of a better place to put this so.. thanks

By: scout

scout — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 01:19:09 +0000

Unfortunately I haven’t been able to find such an option. (I also did a quick Google search, and haven’t found anything useful.)

Just for kicks, I had the phone navigate directly to question.php after I tried to login. I got the same thing — a blank page. The odd thing is the blank pages I’m seeing don’t look entirely empty — there is a scroll bar to the right, but the phone won’t let me scroll around at all. (It just beeps when I try to move down.)

By: khatzumoto

khatzumoto — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:27:23 +0000

@scout
Is there a “enable redirection”-like option on your phone’s browser settings?

By: khatzumoto

khatzumoto — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:24:29 +0000

@scout
Yeah, redirection may be the problem. In that case, I think I can fix it quite easily by adding a manual link…

By: khatzumoto

khatzumoto — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:22:39 +0000

@Deven
I’ve been thinking about that. Thank you for the suggestion. I will add it to the feature list. It may take a little while, but that’s a really good idea and I’d like to implement it. Thanks again.

By: scout

scout — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 20:12:31 +0000

Khatz, Thanks for your suggestions. It does seem that I wasn’t spending long enough looking at the answer — if I pause 10 seconds or so, it seems to move on to the next question. I think the problem is that the amount of time it takes to read and ‘get’ a rep is highly dependent on the card contents. The one I was never getting off of was an old, simple question that immediately made sense to me. (I had imported some old questions from another SRS.)

I’ve tried enabling ‘remember me’, but it doesn’t seem to change the phone’s behavior. It looks like it gets stuck on login.php, and never moves off of it. I wonder if the phone refuses to allow automatic forwarding to the next page?

Sadly it looks like Gyao is restricted to those with Japanese IP addresses. Whenever I go to register, it tells me it’s limited to use in Japan. (I even tried using a .co.jp email address, but that didn’t seem to help.)

Thanks again for your help!

By: Deven

Deven — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 18:31:09 +0000

yes that is what I mean, allow different categories.

that way I could have my words and sentences separate.
and I could add things for school classes if I needed to as well without having them mixed in with all the japanese

By: khatzumoto

khatzumoto — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 11:45:06 +0000

@scout
Also try selecting “Remember me” on your cellphone, when you login.

By: khatzumoto

khatzumoto — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 11:11:32 +0000

＠JDog
The Internets gave me this list (chart) of Christmas singles. The format is [SONG ARTIST].
Source: http://www.7xmas.com/32.html
I googled: クリスマスソング　邦楽
i.e. Japanese Christmas music.

You might be able to play some for free from here: http://www.gyao.jp/music/christmas07/
Gyao is free and only requires registration…I think you can even give fake email oops did I say that out loud.

1位　クリスマス・イブ（山下達郎）
2位　すてきなホリディ(竹内まりや)
3位　恋人がサンタクロース（松任谷由美）
4位　メリクリ　BoA
5位　appears/CAROLS　浜崎あゆみ
6位　星屑の街　ゴスペラーズ
7位　WINTERS　SONG　　ドリームズ・カム・トゥルー
8位　白い恋人達桑田佳祐
9位　いつかのメリークリスマス　B’z
10位クリスマスイブＲａｐ　キック・ザ・カンクルー
11位　雪が降る街　ユニコーン
12位　クリスマス　JUDY AND MARY
13位　サイレントイヴ　辛島美登里
14位　聖なる鐘がひびく夜　タンポポ
15位　聖者が街にやってくる　Laughin’Nose
16位　Dreams of Christmas　TM NETWORK
17位　クリスマスキャロルの頃に　稲垣潤一
18位　雪のクリスマス　DREAMS COME trUE
19位　クリスマスなんて大嫌い!！なんちゃって　クレイジーケンバンド
20位　白いクリスマス　JUN SKY WALKER(S)
21位　HERO　Mr.Children
22位　雪に願いを槇原敬之
23位　White Love　Speed
24位　Dear…again　広瀬香美
25位　クリスマスラブ　サザンオールスターズ

By: khatzumoto

khatzumoto — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 11:02:09 +0000

@quend
1) I’m going to take a trip to my video store JUST for you, dude…JUST for you. Let me put it on my date list. I’m going to rent the movie at IMMENSE personal cost and go through that noss to see whether the songs are in Japanese
[General pattern: original music for the movie is often dubbed, especially if sung by characters…in any case I will check and report within 3 weeks]

By: khatzumoto

khatzumoto — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 10:59:32 +0000

@scout
#1) I made the scheduling stricter so that you have to really LOOK at the item and THINK about how you’re going to remember it somewhat, and essentially earn yourself a 5-point score (maybe more than one)…that should only happen with new items or items with a bad track record. The reason for this is that when a lot of people “forget” something, usually it’s because they never GOT it in the first place. I was wanting this to make you really think “are ya sure you know this? really?”…

If you find that too strict I might change it, or make it so that that item comes up later on that same day.

#2) I have seen that error…do you have cookies enabled on your cellphone web browser? Try that. Let me know if it still doesn’t work…

By: khatzumoto

khatzumoto — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 10:55:09 +0000

@Deven
You mean, like splitting things into different categories/sets instead of having it all combined?

By: JDog

JDog — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 01:59:16 +0000

OK, thanks ruisu! I’ll have to check that out.

By: ruisu

ruisu — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 17:08:16 +0000

Hey JDog, Chara’s got a new single out in the spirit of xmas: 僕のことを知って

By: Deven

Deven — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 03:33:20 +0000

Oh, one more question for Khatzumoto.

would it be possible to add a function to khatzumemo where, you can have multiple categories in the review section?

like a section for Words and a section for Sentences(you could make whatever categories you needed though.) but I don’t only SRS sentences I’d also like to SRS words that I keep forgetting and need to remember, but would like them in their own category.

By: Deven

Deven — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 01:08:03 +0000

scout, I’ve been having the same problem as you with you #1.
number 2 I’m not entirely sure don’t have that phone, or Verizon for that matter.

By: scout

scout — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:31:20 +0000

I’ve come across two problems with KhatzuMemo and so far I’ve been unable to resolve either one on my own. Hopefully someone else will be able to clue me in as to what I’m doing wrong.

1) I’ve been trying to use KhatzuMemo from a computer with both Firefox 2 and IE 7. I’m currently unable to get past the first question. After I look at the answer and rate how easy it was, the second rep shows the exact same question. Worse yet, the number of reps for the day goes up by one each time I do this. This seems to go one forever. (Admittedly, I’ve only actually tried it ~5 times in a row before giving up.)

2) It seems like my cell phone (a Verizon LG VX8300) doesn’t want to play nicely with KhatzuMemo — the login page works, but after logging in I get a blank page. I originally wrote off using my cell phone since it lacks support for Japanese text, but now that it can be displayed as an image I’m trying to figure out what’s giving it issues. Has anyone else seen something similar?

Thanks!

By: quendidil

quendidil — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:05:18 +0000

Khatz, this might sound a bit odd, but is the Japanese “The Sound of Music” COMPLETELY dubbed in Japanese? Although over on Amazon they list the languages as 英語, 日本語 but I wonder if the songs are also dubbed in Japanese. The same goes for other musical-shows like My Fair Lady.

JDog, I think Christmas in Japan is primarily thought of as a lovers’ holiday and not one for the family. If it’s spent at home, people just laze about at home. There is a trend towards spending Christmas with the family though, at least according to wiki.