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Learning how to do something well involves a lot of failures/failed experiments (eg, there is some interesting research on learning curves that goes into simila
by narag 6y ago
Learning how to do something well involves a lot of failures/failed experiments (eg, there is some interesting research on learning curves that goes into similar ideas at a massive scale).
Care to share some links?
Prying into your profile I see you asked HN, whithout much luck, something of the sort time ago. (would you mind pinging me? my email is in my profile)
- roenxi 6y agoI was only thinking of basic economic stuff, eg: https://www.yourarticlelibrary.com/economics/cost-curves/learning-curve-an-important-modern-concept-in-economics/36956 https://www.yourarticlelibrary.com/economics/cost-curves/lea... http://www.strategosinc.com/downloads/learning-curves-dl1.pdf http://www.strategosinc.com/downloads/learning-curves-dl1.pd... Don't have any especially good case studies or rigorous papers but the effect makes sense to me. Lots of practice leads to order-of-magnitude improvement, which suggests that a future-great system starts off producing some relatively questionable results. > Prying into your profile I see you asked HN, whithout much luck, something of the sort time ago. (would you mind pinging me? my email is in my profile) Thanks for the offer; won't take you up on it. I don't have spare time to read up on things like I once did.