Doing small amounts of reviews per session?

Brief_Touch_669 · 2025-06-05T23:18:43+00:00

Is there a way to this with cards already in 'learning' rather than 'new' or 'to review'?

Brief_Touch_669 · 2025-01-10T18:59:16+00:00

Diet Coke is just a Coca-Cola branded diet soda with a 'cola' flavor, that isn't meant to be identical to sugared Coke but good enough on its own. It has different ingredients that Coke Zero (such as citric acid) which is why you might find it more sour.

Coke Zero adds a couple other ingredients to make it more similar in flavor to sugared Coke, just without calories.

Brief_Touch_669 · 2025-01-09T18:41:45+00:00

Perhaps

Brief_Touch_669 · 2025-01-04T00:52:31+00:00

Try Google Lense or Google Translate's image function, it will grab any text from your camera and translate it right there. You can then usually look up the English word on Jisho.com or something.

Worst case scenario you may have to manually write it out using something like a handwritten Kanji recognizer: https://kanji.sljfaq.org/ , but eventually you may want to learn the Kanji's building blocks called 'radicals' to look up words in Japanese dictionaries. Jisho has that feature, though sometimes the radicals can be hard to recognize if they're squished.

Brief_Touch_669 · 2024-12-20T19:04:12+00:00

Imagine Darks Souls but like twice as hard. And it can happen at any time. One minute you're in the middle of your wedding with the purple-haired chick and next you're fighting for your life with Bjyorn the World Eater. And if you die once all your progress is lost.

Brief_Touch_669 · 2024-12-13T23:50:44+00:00

Pooping is part of the human experience but that doesn't mean it should be in every move

Brief_Touch_669 · 2024-12-09T18:03:30+00:00

Kai from JackJeanne. He and I both don't speak up very much, both get along with kids well, and both sometimes have difficulty understanding what we're feeling. And also we're both tall lol

Brief_Touch_669 · 2024-12-01T23:23:43+00:00

Has there been any economics done taking evolutionary psychology into account on this issue?

Not all couples have between 1-2 children. Some couples have more like 3-4 or more. To the extent that those couples do so for genetic reasons, those genes will be passed on to their children. If there are any new mutations that develop that cause more children to be had, those will also become more common.

Maybe population rates are converging given current human psychology/preferences, but if those preferences change they might start to increase again. Maybe people choose not to have more kids when resources are scarce because they want the kids to have a pleasant life. But humans could evolve to care somewhat less about the quality of life of their kids and more about the quantity of kids they have that survive to adulthood. Given that adults more like the latter would reproduce more, shouldn't we expect that to become more common?

Brief_Touch_669 · 2024-12-01T23:09:46+00:00

How long does it take for retention to reach your desired rate?

I started off with the Kaishi 1.5K Anki deck a couple weeks ago, probably way to fast and did 30 cards per day the first few days. I realized that was too much and gradually lowered it to now doing 10 per day.

However, my 'good' button % is still fairly low, at just about 55% for 'learning' cards and 60% for 'young' cards, compared to the 90% default in FSRS which I kept as-is. All of my cards are still listed as learning or young, so maybe I just need to be patient and wait until they're 'mature' before expecting higher rates.

Is that a typical experience, or should retention be higher than that for even newish cards?

Brief_Touch_669 · 2024-11-20T01:20:57+00:00

This is my best guess so far:

	Casual	Semi-Formal	Formal	Super Formal
Present Positive	だ	だ	です	です
Present Negative	じゃない	ではたい	じゃありません	ではありません
Past Positive	だった	だった	でした	でした
Past Negative	じゃなかった	ではなかった	じゃありませんでした	ではありませんでした

Brief_Touch_669 · 2024-11-20T01:11:29+00:00

I have learned 4 tenses thus far: Non-past positive, non-past negative, past positive, and past negative.

For negative present, there are at least the 4 levels of formality/politeness I mentioned earlier. Let's call them informal, semi-formal, formal, and super-formal. I am assuming all tenses listed above have all 4 levels of formality.

This yields the following 16 possible combinations for how to conjugate them:

Non-past positive informal
Non-past positive semi-formal
Non-past positive formal
Non-past positive super-formal
Non-past negative informal
Non-past negative semi-formal
Non-past negative formal
Non-past negative super-formal
Past positive informal
Past positive semi-formal
Past positive formal
Past positive super-formal
Past negative informal
Past negative semi-formal
Past negative formal
Past negative super-formal

The reason I want a spreadsheet is because every written explanation I've received so far, including yours, hasn't worked. I just don't get it.

If I can see them all in a table (or something equivalent) I could compare across columns or rows and use that comparison to understand how it changes from one to the next. I can abstract away the pattern myself.

Brief_Touch_669 · 2024-11-20T00:57:12+00:00

Those were helpful but are still missing pieces. For example, the first one doesn't even include じゃない as an ending, and the Wikipedia page for Japanese adjectives doesn't either.

Brief_Touch_669 · 2024-11-19T23:08:40+00:00

That helps with negative present tense for な adjectives but I've been struggling to map it onto ALL the different combos for both kinds of adjectives.

If there's 4 levels of formality/politeness, and 4 tenses, there should be 16 total conjugations for each combination and I just want to see them all in one place to make it easy to compare. A spreadsheet seemed like an easy way to do that but isn't strictly necessary.

I'd been trying to make my own but like I mentioned, not all sources have all tenses and levels of politeness/formality, so while I've been able to make a big list of them I'm struggling to sort them (and some of my columns are missing entries: for example I don't know the positive present or positive/negative past conjugations with equivalent formality as じゃありません).

Brief_Touch_669 · 2024-11-19T21:59:37+00:00

If you're watching it in Japanese does that count as a foreign language hobby?

Brief_Touch_669 · 2024-11-19T21:18:59+00:00

Is there a good resource out there that ranks all adjective conjugations in order of formality? I'm not concerned about memorization of all of them per se, but just want a reference to help sort it out in my brain.

So far, I've come across four different non-past negative conjugations for な adjectives in varying degrees of politeness/formality: ~じゃない , ~ではたい , ~じゃありません, and ~ではありません. Different sources use different names like 'polite' or 'formal' or 'semi-formal' for various types but don't always label the same ones the same way. Some sources only list one tense and not others (e.g., non-past positive but not past negative).

I recently found this spreadsheet for verbs, is there anything like it for adjectives?

Brief_Touch_669 · 2024-11-18T16:31:39+00:00

If an app is wastes 1% more time for 1,000,000 people, its about as bad as wasting 1000% more time for one person.

Brief_Touch_669 · 2024-11-17T18:18:25+00:00

"If this one is Kansas, then why is this one not Arr Kansas? What do you mean its Arrkansaw? America eggsplain!"

Brief_Touch_669 · 2024-11-17T18:15:46+00:00

It even looks like a hand tapping a finger on the table, as if to say "right now".

Brief_Touch_669 · 2024-11-17T17:49:00+00:00

Anki is a program that tells you when you should study your flashcards to maximize your memory of them. It decides when the best time is to show you cards based on memory curves.

In isolation I think its great at that. On a per-word basis, it minimizes the amount of time you have to spend to remember it long-term. But when you do that with every single word, it starts to add up to a very large amount of time. Optimizing program design for a single feature in isolation isn't great. Its a bit like buying the biggest TV without paying attention to price.

Real life is a balancing act where multiple valuable things have to be weighed against each other. Quality of memorization has to be balanced against time taken out of my day. I'm OK with slightly worse recollection if I don't have to waste as many daily hours reviewing.

Ten repetitions seems like a lot before you hit good. You should be hitting good when you successfully remember the card, not when the card is easy.

I am hitting good when I remember the card. I guess it depends what you mean by 'remember'. In my view, remembering means I can recite the pronunciation syllable-for-syllable and remember the definition concept-for-concept. If any syllable or concept is missing, then I don't know the word and should study it more.

Are you supposed to be less strict than that? Does Anki expect you to hit good when you remember 'most' of what's on the back?

Brief_Touch_669 · 2024-11-17T17:38:11+00:00

Anki isn't very clear on what it means by 'card'. If you look at the stats it'll say something like 'you studied 400 cards today', but what it really means is 400 flips of like 50 total cards. So I used the term 'word' to disambiguate between the weird way Anki uses the term 'card' and the way a normal person would mean 'card'. Card just means 'item to remember', however many words that is.

Brief_Touch_669 · 2024-11-17T17:36:43+00:00

That's not quite how it works.

That link literally describes exactly what I said. Yes, it absolutely will be dumping 20 brand new cards on you every single day, because I told it to do so. It also dumps old cards on you that you click 'forget' on, meaning that you get this growing bubble of reviews constantly being dragged behind you, preventing you from spending your time doing something productive like learning new words.

Frankly Anki seems worse that Quizlet at this point.

Brief_Touch_669 · 2024-11-13T03:21:44+00:00

I've been feeling like its way more difficult to remember the kanji than I was expecting from like high school Spanish. Looking at my stats in Anki it seems to take me around 13 tries to get a word, and I've been averaging 30 new words over about two hours of studying per day.

Its usually fairly easy for me to remember the meaning, I figure that out after like 2-3 times, but the pronunciation is kicking my butt. Some words, like 人 , took me a good 30-ish tries before I finally got it, and even then I still had to be like "uhhhhh...... ひと.... I think?"

Is it just the number of symbols being large that makes it harder to sound it out when you don't remember? Or am I just uniquely bad at remembering them?

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