Been occasionally pestering family and some colleagues over the last 1/2 - 1 year, about the idea that "playfulness" of children is why they learn so quickly, a

Been occasionally pestering family and some colleagues over the last 1/2 - 1 year, about the idea that "playfulness" of children is why they learn so quickly, and that it is relevant to ML :P Children build up a continuously more sophisticated "hypothesis" of how the world works, and are always inspired (by some neural process?) to explore the the limits of that hypothesis by perturbing things in new little fun ways ... throw away that ball ... upwards, downwards, sidewards ... bite it, taste it, sit on it, stand on it. I guess there is some randomness to the new experiments chosen to try, but they are also based on the continuously improved understanding of the world. Realizing that a ball is bouncy opens up a world of new "fun" experiments to try, a.s.o. a.s.o. Well, pretty obvious to every parent of course :D ... but in any way a really major and important area to learn from I think.