Comments on: Surusu Update: Multimedia et al.

By: shibuya

shibuya — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:28:35 +0000

okay, I feel really stupid but I need to ask after spending at least a day on this site trying to find my answer without success. There is so much content that I’m totally lost. I’m getting really frustrated.
Is it me? I created an account in Surusu and…… now what?
It looks like the first step is to learn Kanji, so I downloaded the PDF of RTK from one of the links. Do I follow that PDF and practice writing them or is that what Surusu is for. Am I supposed to buy the RTK book?
How do I get started in Surusu. It appears that I have to load files into it. Where do I obtain these files from?
And then comes the sentences. I take it I have to load sentences into this Surusu thing? How do I do this.
OMG. Am I that dumb? Any help?

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By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:08:52 +0000

I have been using Surusu more and more over the last couple of weeks, and overall I find it great. I have used Supermemo and many other SRS systems over the years, but this one really works the best.

I have one question, though. The “this item may be wasting your time” message does not follow any rational I can figure out. It sometimes shows up for cards I’m repeating a lot, and sometimes on cards I hardly see, and other times when I have no idea what the frequency is.

I appreciate that it’s just offering a suggestion, but without any sense of why it gets attached to any one card, it’s hard to assess how worthwhile it is to give it any consideration.

Can you enlighten us as to how and why some cards trigger this alert message?

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By: Harry

Harry — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:14:04 +0000

I think I may switch over to this. Currently I’ve been using Anki, but its annoying since I have to carry a stupid USB drive everywhere I go to carry my deck in. Its a bit annoying. Plus SuRuSu has a cooler name, plus it tells you if an item may be wasting your time which is pretty awesome. Also it seems just closer to the motivation (this site)… And it has cool little doodles. I’ll have to re add everything, is there a way to somehow add my deck over to SuRuSu? This may be a loooong process.

Thanks!

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By: grophrane

grophrane — Mon, 04 May 2009 07:48:29 +0000

The initial problem was that the added items did not show up immediately in the reps and thus didn’t get integrated into the system. I don’t have that problem anymore, however, there’s a chunk of items I added which seem to never show up. Newer items shows up, but the ones that I added that time did’t and still don’t. I think it’s about 4-5 days ago I added them, maybe even a week.

-The initial problem I had is solved.
-There’s still this chunk of items in there that don’t show up no matter what I do.

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By: Grophrane

Grophrane — Sat, 02 May 2009 14:18:06 +0000

Sorry for the late response khatz, it seems to be fixed as I just saw some of my recently added items.

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By: khatzumoto

khatzumoto — Sat, 02 May 2009 01:18:03 +0000

@きのこ
*may* be wasting your time.
*consider* splitting.
Not “shut the truck up and do as I say”.
The user’s still the judge; it’s just a rough guideline.

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By: きのこ

きのこ — Fri, 01 May 2009 17:57:12 +0000

I just got a “WARNING! This item may be wasting your time. Consider splitting or deleting it.” message. I think the user should be the judge of that.

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By: Maya

Maya — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:57:59 +0000

@Nick – thanks!!!

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By: Nick_dm

Nick_dm — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:03:12 +0000

Maya, have you tried CantoDict?
www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/scripts/wordlist.htm
It has the ability to parse sentences too (it will match words rather individual characters from Chinese sentences).

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By: beneficii

beneficii — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:21:43 +0000

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By: Maya

Maya — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:49:42 +0000

Khatz (or anyone else here learning Canto) –

Can you recommend any good online Jyutping-English dictionaries?

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By: khatzumoto

khatzumoto — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:13:42 +0000

@Grophrane
That should be fixed now…let me know.

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By: khatzumoto

khatzumoto — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:30:19 +0000

@Grophrane
How many hours ago was it you were doing your reps?

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By: Grophrane

Grophrane — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:05:06 +0000

I’ve got a question: When will my added items appear in the system? I’ve done about 110 reps today and have only seen 5-10 of those I added yesterday (about 20).

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By: 40 pancakes

40 pancakes — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:12:03 +0000

Much thanks and all that, but does anyone find the stats shown after each rep to be unnecessary? If it could be turned off it would be handy, presumably making reps faster in terms of stuff that needs to be loaded (yes/no?). Anyways, just a suggestion.

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By: khatzumoto

khatzumoto — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 06:35:00 +0000

@AML
I have been unable to reproduce this…
What platform are you using in terms of hardware/OS/browser/ISP?

Is anyone else having this problem?

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By: AML

AML — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 06:30:12 +0000

FIX NEEDED:
To edit, currently have to hit “save changes” twice.

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By: 克己

克己 — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 04:20:46 +0000

I was wondering about the same thing KREVA mentioned. That format switch you mentioned.

Anyways, beautiful update on Surusu.

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By: mista mark

mista mark — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 02:26:03 +0000

If was a way to import data into this puppy I’d use it.
eg, the user uploads a tab delimited txt file of a defined format [eg: Question{tab}Answer{/n}] and BAM it’s imported and ready to get worked over!

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By: ノーラン

ノーラン — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 02:11:52 +0000

YES.　完璧。
吾愛ove Surusu. Before, 吾 tried to tell my friends about Khatzumemo, but they’re like “ええ！？何これ？”　so 今ow they’ll probably be more 開pen to the 全hole 意dea. Thanks a ton.

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