I am having difficulties installing the latest version of ML. The last version of ML I recall using had a major problem:
It kept on reloading box 1 after each promotion, so that its capacity remained constant.
That is HIGHLY UNDESIRABLE behavior, which should, as a minimum, be user-controlled.
The reason is that when you start studying a batch of cards in box 1 (say 30) you want to progressively focus on the harder cards in that group, by promoting to box 2 the ones you first remember (presumably the easier ones), and NOT adding new ones until you are down to 2 or 3.
The way memory works, some concepts stick to your memory much faster than others. For example, in the case of foreign vocabulary, some words are similar to the native counterparts, or are easier to remember for whatever reasons. Others may be totally unfamiliar, or may even have a misleading similarity.
When you take the initial 30-card batch, you don't know which will be easier or harder. But the system takes care of that, by promoting to the next box those you first remember.
However, if you keep on adding new cards as soon as you promote one, you never focus on the hard cards. They are always mixed with easier cards. You keep on promoting easier ones, replacing them with new easier ones, but the harder ones tend to stay in box 1.
VERY BAD.
When you do not add new ones until box 1 is nearly empty, what happens is that from the initial batch (say 30), the easiest ones (say 10) move quickly to box 2, leaving you focused on the 20 that your brain find less easy. As you keep on working on these 20, eventually the 10 less hard also move up, leaving you focused on the hardest 10. When you are down to five, those are precisely the 5 hardest from the initial batch. Eventually you will be down to the 2 super hard ones, and eventually you will have only one card left. Now you NEED to add more. And if you found this last one really hard, you may want to add relatively few (say 10) so you keep seeing this super-hard card often enough.
YOU NEVER WANT to refill box 1, one card at a time, after each and every promotion. That is VERY unhelpful.
Virgil
It kept on reloading box 1 after each promotion, so that its capacity remained constant.
That is HIGHLY UNDESIRABLE behavior, which should, as a minimum, be user-controlled.
The reason is that when you start studying a batch of cards in box 1 (say 30) you want to progressively focus on the harder cards in that group, by promoting to box 2 the ones you first remember (presumably the easier ones), and NOT adding new ones until you are down to 2 or 3.
The way memory works, some concepts stick to your memory much faster than others. For example, in the case of foreign vocabulary, some words are similar to the native counterparts, or are easier to remember for whatever reasons. Others may be totally unfamiliar, or may even have a misleading similarity.
When you take the initial 30-card batch, you don't know which will be easier or harder. But the system takes care of that, by promoting to the next box those you first remember.
However, if you keep on adding new cards as soon as you promote one, you never focus on the hard cards. They are always mixed with easier cards. You keep on promoting easier ones, replacing them with new easier ones, but the harder ones tend to stay in box 1.
VERY BAD.
When you do not add new ones until box 1 is nearly empty, what happens is that from the initial batch (say 30), the easiest ones (say 10) move quickly to box 2, leaving you focused on the 20 that your brain find less easy. As you keep on working on these 20, eventually the 10 less hard also move up, leaving you focused on the hardest 10. When you are down to five, those are precisely the 5 hardest from the initial batch. Eventually you will be down to the 2 super hard ones, and eventually you will have only one card left. Now you NEED to add more. And if you found this last one really hard, you may want to add relatively few (say 10) so you keep seeing this super-hard card often enough.
YOU NEVER WANT to refill box 1, one card at a time, after each and every promotion. That is VERY unhelpful.
Virgil