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Pretty close to 10000 hours to get good at something?
by sheeshkebab 9y ago
Pretty close to 10000 hours to get good at something?
- tgb 9y agoThe article says 40 hours of flying time.
- gwern 9y agoPlus, trivially parallelizable across many drones, and it's not even using normal RL techniques to accelerate learning. Training a drone controller is more or less a solved problem, the interest of this is whether all the crash datapoints are useful.
- udkl 9y agoI don't really believe in the 10,000 hours number. Granted I've never read the book but it 'feels' faux. The amount of time needed to master is more a combination of deep practice, motivation to master & the individual learning rate. 'The talent code' talks about deep practice. Deep practice is the 80 in the 80/20 principle.
- peter303 9y agoSome essays have refuted this hypothesis. Some people have natural talent, i.e. prodigies, which may become proficient in far shorter time.