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- I'm Junyao Ye, 叶峻峣 in Chinese, and I like to use Jarrett Ye as my English name.

- I'm a graduate CS major at Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen.

- I'm currently working as a research engineer in Maimemo Inc.

- I'm developing an algorithm of spaced repetition (FSRS) and simulator of human memory.

- Ask me about Anki or SuperMemo, I'm a diehard flashcard fan!

- My homepage: <https://l-m-sherlock.github.io>

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Yes, we can improve FSRS in that way. But it requires to collect a lot of review data with cards' content, which breaks Anki's privacy policy. And FSRS is my side project which has squeezed all my free time... I'm not very motivated to improve it now.

- The algorithm is updated to FSRS-5.

- Forgetting curve is added into card info.

- Load balancing: within your fuzz range, Anki will now try to pick days that have fewer reviews waiting.

- Easy days: you can now tell Anki to try avoid certain days of the week.

- Simulator: you can get an estimate of your workload, either in reviews per day or in minutes of studying per day.

FSRS-based simulator could help user regulate the number of new cards they need to learn per day. The simulator will be integrated into Anki natively in the next release. But it's still an experimental feature. If the simulator is accurate enough, I plan to make it more automatically to support the idea that let the algorithm choose many new cards the user should have.

I also want to compare with SM-18, but I don’t know how to export the predictions of SM-18 from SuperMemo.

By the way ,SuperMemo CEO said that they will release the algorithm API. If it’s not very expensive, I will compare it with FSRS.