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> That is not how human learning works. As someone who has a baby in the house, I assure you that it is indeed how a human learns and refines motor skills, at
by smallnamespace 7y ago
> That is not how human learning works.
As someone who has a baby in the house, I assure you that it is indeed how a human learns and refines motor skills, at the very least - by repeated experiment and play, with thousands of permutations of position, speed, weight, and situation. They also try to infer causal models [1].
Just what do you think 'play' is for a child, if not (in part) an opportunity to safely explore its surroundings and refine mental models?
[1] https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_videos.jsp?cntn_id=125575&media_id=73196&org https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_videos.jsp?cntn_id=125575&medi...
- tsimionescu 7y agoThe GP's post was not about early development, but about all human learning, including higher learning and advanced physics. Sure, there are modes of learning that are pure experimentation, but there are many other modes of human learning. Even children, after some point, start developing a model and then designing experiments to test hypotheses to refine that model, which is not at all how machine learning works.