Let us dispense with the fiction that learning is fun. Moments of payoff (feel of increased agency/clarity) are fun. They're< 5%. 95% =pain
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just open-sourced its state of the art machine learning expert and could pull that off, I'd do the same thing
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That entirely depends on who is teaching you and how you are learning it though.
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I noticed a few years ago that my career hit rate has been about that but the 5% that paid off paid off
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that's why I get most of my knowledge from high status persons, allows me to sweeten the process by fawning over them.
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Progressive education people have some good ideas, but the inability to grapple with this makes most of their practices useless.






