Teach yourself programming in 10 years
- points out that, in order to be excellent at any difficult skill/art, you must practice 10 years or 10,000 hours, and this practice must be focused and deliberate.
- quote: "have shown it takes about ten years to develop expertise in any of a wide variety of areas, including chess playing, music composition, telegraph operation, painting, piano playing, swimming, tennis, and research in neuropsychology and topology"
- possibly this is partially due to competition - most other people drop out after 10 years!
- Or this is due to the fact that, for general purpose behaviors, we are really no better than the present gradient descent & reinforcement learning algorithms which require repeated presentation of patterns and behaviors. Where humans achieve sub-gradient/RL performance is where evolution has supplied us with hardware or 'prior assumptions' to bias for a correct solution / correct solution space. These prior assumptions are (part of) that which the make study brain interesting!
- "Life is short, [the] craft long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult." -- Hippocrates.
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