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I'll try to make the checkbox more prominent - it could perhaps be toggled by clicking anywhere in the privacy box, or replaced with a larger button. I'll exper
by Alex-Programs 2y ago
I'll try to make the checkbox more prominent - it could perhaps be toggled by clicking anywhere in the privacy box, or replaced with a larger button. I'll experiment with it a bit.
Sentence difficulty is all calculated on the English side, because it would be prohibitively expensive to translate before doing the calculation. It uses the vocabulary difficulty (via bloom filters - I'm planning to write a blog post with more detail on how I made it performant) and some grammar heuristics (punctuation, case/tense, etc).
Users don't automatically progress - perhaps I should have made that clearer. You choose your difficulty using the slider in the extension popup, deciding yourself when it's a good time to increase it.
- blackbrokkoli 2y agoThank you for the answer. If you want some inspiration for the toggle: have you ever seen the Firefox uBlock Origin plugin UI? They basically have a giant on/off button, which I think is a rather good solution. Interesting approach for the difficulty evaluation, and rather pragmatic. If you happen to have some write-up for the grammar heuristics or more detailed sources, I'd be interested :) Definitely didn't realize I had to set difficulty manually (but maybe I'm just blind). Would be interesting to see if there's any smart way of auto-evaluating progress...maybe something like occasionally asking how difficult a sentence that the user hovers was or even just passive signals such as whether sentences are hovered. Just because if difficulty would be evaluated by the software, you'd both have a non-subjective measurement of your progress and you truly just could have this on in the background, never thinking about it, and still always learn. Just some random thoughts; in any case good luck with this!