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I don't recommend allowing Anki items to have an interval of over one year because the crude SM-2 algorithm does not capture the per-item effect of exponential
by orangepurple 4y ago
I don't recommend allowing Anki items to have an interval of over one year because the crude SM-2 algorithm does not capture the per-item effect of exponential decay in memory. Multiplying interval lengths by per-item ease factors is suboptimal and not the same. Unlike, for instance, ACT-R, which unfortunately has no good publicly available user interface. A good implementation of a neural memory fact model will track strengths of associative memories in addition to the per-item exponential forgetting curve. Keep the Anki intervals capped at one year until something better comes along.
- kazinator 4y agoProblem is it seems you're then throwing under the bus all those items you recall perfectly well that have 6+ year intervals, which don't require yearly review. Arguably, you could just retire those; but then sometimes they lapse, as I noted: how do you decide what to retire?
- orangepurple 4y agoBuild a knowledge graph of associative memories, measure their strength, and prune clusters with excessive memory strength