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Metus comments on A Workflow with Spaced Repetition - Less Wrong Discussion

8 Post author: Emile 03 November 2013 03:58PM

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Comment author: Metus 03 November 2013 07:35:25PM 1 point [-]

In case people do as I do and interpret this as a suggestion box: I would find it interesting to be able to answer with a confidence value from 0% to 100%. The SRS should take this in account to decide when to show the card again. Wrong or unsure answers will be repeated very soon and wrong more often, very confident and correct answers get much longer resting time.

Note that I do not use Anki or other SRS as they have been some pain to work with for me. I'd like to use them on my Android phone but in the past it was just too much of a hassle to get it up and running and maintaining it.

Comment author: deskglass 03 November 2013 08:32:46PM *  1 point [-]

Is that not what SRS like Anki does already? Granted they force you to pick one of 5 categories of difficulty rather than one of 100, but it's basically the same.

Comment author: hyporational 05 November 2013 05:49:53PM 1 point [-]

Not really. You pick the category after the answer, not before. The categories are supposed to represent effort in remembering the answer, not how lucky you got with your guess.

Comment author: [deleted] 05 November 2013 08:21:21PM 1 point [-]

If you're guessing, mark that card as having been wrong.

In real life, there are probabilities, but in Anki, you should have either "I remember this with certainty," or "I've forgotten this."