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The Mnemosyne Project has two aspects:
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* It's a sophisticated free flash-card tool which optimises your
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learning process.
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* It's a research project into the nature of long-term memory.
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The Mnemosyne software resembles a traditional flash-card program to
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help you memorise question/answer pairs, but with an important twist:
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it uses a sophisticated algorithm to schedule the best time for a card
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to come up for review. Difficult cards that you tend to forget quickly
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will be scheduled more often, while Mnemosyne won't waste your time on
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things you remember well.
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While you use the software, detailed statistics can be kept on your
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learning process. If you want, these logs can be uploaded in a
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transparent and anonymous way to a central server for analysis.
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This data will be valuable to study the behaviour of our memory over a
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very long time period. As an additional benefit, the results will be
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used to improve the scheduling algorithms behind the software even
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further.
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