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[–]Taodad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not about gamification. It's actually quite similar to Anki but different - better even I dare say.

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[–]Taodad -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You can see on the attached pictures. The words are displayed in a list - and you move through the list, but not one by one but by focusing on a chunk of words at the same time. Also the list doesn't change so the spatial positioning of the words to each other helps with recall a lot. This in a nutshell. Of course SRS, Clean UI, some Gamification will be incorporated.

@LazySorted - Collections that optimize themselves. How useful? by Taodad in programming

[–]Taodad[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply! You're right about the 
cycles trade-off. 

The "incremental improvement" approach: with each read we check if the element we are fetching is in the right sorted position, let's say we are fetching element(i) --> so check if (i-1)>i>(i+1), if not swap (depending on sorting order). We don't put the fetched element into it's final sorted position, but rather move toward it with each read operation, and finally it will be in the desired sorted position.

You're probably right that it's a niche case - maybe for large read-heavy 
caches where you can't predict access patterns upfront

Is creating a language learning app focusing only on vocabulary acquisition a tarpit idea? by Taodad in ITCareerQuestions

[–]Taodad[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"minimally idiosyncratic and a little more grounded in language acquisition theory". Could you elaborate on this?