as a musician I think the music analogy is great. You get formal instruction, work on your own, periodically study with others.
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Yeah, it's the kind of thing ppl like me (=w years of formal and self-taught stuff) stay up all night doing, losing track of time, learning
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Replying to @o_guest @bakermind and
about theory (maths, eg big O notation) and practise, trying different stuff, etc have been doing all the way through.
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So when people look from the outside they see a polished whole, which is real, but it's thousands of tiny steps and hundreds of hours too.
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For example, I know what a continuation is even though I've probably never used one explicitly, and I know about machine code even though I
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only wrote some on pieces of paper directly. We just pick stuff up, words, so when we Google stuff we can actually get the job done even in
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cases where it's uncharted waters. I mean it's no different than any other skill like writing a good journal article. No single event taught
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you to write well if you're good.
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