Machine Learning for Human Memorization(blog.smellthedata.com)
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Machine Learning for Human Memorization
http://blog.smellthedata.com/2010/12/machine-learning-for-human-memorization.html
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I gave only a quick read, and I'm completely unfamiliar with Scrabble... but: why not use a Markov chain? I would start looking at the two step case, using only the most probable letter. In this case you have to remember a 26x26 matrix, if this doesn't work you can extend it to the top-n letters.
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Another question: are there other scenarios outside of playing Scrabble where something like this would be useful?
In the abstract? Probably. But in human domains I suspect you're unlikely to find something very amenable to this sort of approach without a lot of looking. I actually think he's better off just memorizing because the words are human words from human minds and just trusting to your own human mind is going to work better than a simple math approach.
The one thing I'd consider adding is memorizing the tuple (word, origin), because English's problem is that my first paragraph is simplified for English; we actually use many different distinct human patterns, and helping the brain partition the problem might be helpful.
The one thing I'd consider adding is memorizing the tuple (word, origin), because English's problem is that my first paragraph is simplified for English; we actually use many different distinct human patterns, and helping the brain partition the problem might be helpful.
hah, this is cool.