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Re: "The Problem With Ads in Apps"
and by the way, duo lingo is possible to use without the app, just from the browser. but i am not using it. i think of using it to learn (improve, radically improve) esperanto.
Feb 20 · 3 months ago
@stack Yes, I got that part :) it's a reasonable concern.
My point was that payments related data has real teeth :) it probably does not go into the same bucket as other data, because mixing/joining data with different constraints on it inevitably leads to expensive/embarrassing screwups.
I realize that this is not concrete enough to be of much use :) so, er, just making conversation really ;)
Back on topic: Pimsleur was into the idea of spaced repetition, actually I think he did some of the original research on it. If you sit through the audio course with a stopwatch I believe you'll find it roughly follows the "practice facts at increasing intervals" pattern.
And it's usually at this point that someone mentions Anki :) which is a great app/tool for any kind of fact-based learning.
The Problem With Ads in Apps — I was playing around with Duolingo today. I tried it a few years ago, just before the pandemic; it got a lot better. This time around, I didn't feel like an idiot poking at obvious multiple-choice questions. There is a good mix of different actions now, including speaking (which now works well). It is gamified, which is good for this sort of thing. So when I started with a browser, it started showing ads. That is fine as everything else on the web is doing the...