The Forgetting Curve and Learning Algorithms

There are now 1,750,000,000 one billion, seven hundred and fifty million people speaking English globally. In Europe and Asia, the non-English-speaking world, the number of companies where English is used as an official language is growing. Rakuten the Japanese biggest onlineshopping, announced this change recently and brought a lot of attention. It has been said that newly hired employees in Samsung Electronics, the South Korean multinational electronics company, are required to score over nine hundred on the TOIEC test. Other companies, such as Airbus, DaimlerChrysler, Nokia, SAP, Microsoft in Beijing and Tokyo, also use English the official language in the company 4. The reason that a language strategy is needed now is that global business speaks English. Besides this, there are three more factors to be considered: The gradual downsizing of the Japanese market, the effect of the Internet and English media, and finally the rapid Englishnization in Asia. It is inefficient to communicate in multiple languages and English becomes a must in order to compete globally. To achieve Englishnization, there are still a lot of hurdles. The biggest one is the English level of individual employees 4. One author is now researching on the topic in relation to supply chain management, where the phenomenon in that fluctuation in orders increase as one moves up the supply chain from retailers to wholesalers to manufacturers to suppliers is referred as the bullwhip effect. The bullwhip effect results in an increase in all costs in the supply chain and a decrease in customer service levels. Therefore, one objective of coordination is reducing the bullwhip effect. A lot of 53 2012 11 30