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One of the hilarious things about this image is the left side: at some point, if you're really bad at memorizing things, super long intervals start to be optimal again. (Note: the right-most part of the image has a strange discontinuity-this is because the optimal factor goes off the top of the chart.) In other words, the white pixels show the curve of optimal interval factors. This is the same graph as before, except that each vertical slice of pixels has been individually normalized so that its own brightest pixel is white. So I have a modified chart that helps us visualize that: And, in fact, for any given person, the only thing that matters in this graph is the vertical slice of pixels corresponding to their personal retention rate. Of course, no human has 100% memory retention (that I'm aware of). In other words, if you never forget anything, you never have to review! So it is completely unsurprising that the brightest pixels in the chart are in the upper-right corner: having 100% retention is super time-efficient! As you get closer and closer to 100% retention, the interval factor matters less and less, and you can crank it up crazy high. One of the things that is immediately obvious is that having better personal retention is. This assumes that you leave your new card ease at 250%, as is default in Anki.) For example, an Interval Factor of 7.5x = 7.5 * 40 = Interval Modifier 300%. Getting the Interval Modifier setting-which Matt talked in terms of-from this number is easy: just multiply by 40. I find this easier to reason about during simulation.

(A side-note about 'Interval Factor': this is literally the number that your card's interval is multiplied by when you answer 'good' on a card. The brightness of the pixels represents how many cards you memorize per hour of study: brighter is more, darker is fewer. The vertical axis is the card's interval factor, and the horizontal axis is the user's retention rate with default Anki settings. The fun part of my simulation is that it produces visualizations. So take this with a certain amount of salt. My simulation makes most of the same assumptions as in Matt's video, so if the base assumptions are wrong, my simulation is wrong as well. It's written in Rust, so it should be pretty painless to build and run for anyone with basic command line experience. I encourage anyone who wants to to mess around with it or build on it to do so.

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I haven't put a license on the repo yet, but please consider it as public domain.

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The code for the simulation can be found on my github. Partly this is to verify Matt's work, and partly this is because we can take more variables into account with simulation, and potentially get more accurate optimal intervals. So I decided to take a different approach to solving the same problem: simulation. However, in the video he also encouraged people to not take it on faith, and instead make sure the math actually works themselves. It depends on a variety of factors, so he came up with a formula that people can use to determine their own optimal intervals.

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Matt took a crack at calculating what those optimal intervals would be. And it turns out, you can memorize more total cards if you're also willing to forget more cards (up to a point) by making your intervals larger. But in this video Matt presents a remarkable insight: what matters isn't your retention rate, what matters is how many total cards you memorize per unit of time you spend studying. minimize forgotten cards), balanced with how much time you're willing to spend studying. Traditionally, you try to maximize your retention rates (i.e.

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One of the resources I've found useful in figuring out how to even approach learning Japanese has been the YouTube channel Matt vs Japan, and he recently posted a video suggesting a different approach to configuring Anki's spaced repetition settings. As I understand it, it shouldn't be your primary study method, but it can accelerate your language learning when used as a supplement to e.g. You can make flash cards in Anki for just about anything, but in the context of language learning it's really useful for moving vocabulary, grammar, etc. It's a flashcard application with automated review scheduling based on spaced repetition. One of the tools that many people use to aid in learning a new language is an application called Anki. Something I haven't talked about on this blog yet is that I'm learning Japanese. ( If you're already familiar with all this background and just want to see the results, skip down to the Results section.) Please DO NOT use the graphs or settings advice below. UPDATE: I found a major problem with the below simulations, which I have fixed in a follow up post.

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