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Nice and pithy.
but is there a time limit? if two candidates create equally effective models in same domain but one took 3 years versus another that took 3 months?
What about if one candidate create effective models in 1 domain and the other did it in 3 domains?
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Yeah I purposely left out all notions of time in the piece. It's interesting. Sometimes I look at other people, learning the 'wrong' things, and think they could be learning much faster.
Then I think there must be others who are looking at me and thinking the exact same thing.
Certain understanding cannot be transferred perfectly from expert to beginner via words.
There's some value to learning the "wrong" things. It lays the foundation so when u encounter other people's verbalized models, u can identify how valuable it is and grok way faster.
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Actually let me correct myself
Experience doing wrong things helps bc when the right predictive model comes along the person can appreciate its value better
Speak from personal exp
when I read same book before & after experience, the book suddenly became smarter in the after!
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