Learning curves (was: Python so far)

[Will Ware]

Brendan Hahn (bhahn at spam-spam.g0-away.com) wrote:
> [learning curve axes]
> X is time elapsed, Y is knowledge acquired.  So the common usage of "steep"
> with regard to learning curves is in fact exactly backwards.  Too late now,
> though.

There is a pretty clear analogy to climbing a hill (or a vertical cliff
face). When climbing a hill the Y axis represents energy or effort.
Maybe X would make sense as knowledge acquired; then a shallow learning
curve means you can gain a lot of knowledge with little exhaustion. It's
not clear that time belongs in there at all (except insofar as your
effort-per-time has some upper bound).
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