[sf-lug] SF-LUG meeting notes of Sunday March 1, 2020

[Alex Kleider]

On 2020-03-04 13:56, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting maestro (maestro415 at gmail.com):
> 
>> Artix has a steep learning curve [...]
> 
> Picture a graph of a learning curve:  The vertical axis is amount of
> learning achieved, and the horizontal axis is time elapsed.  It follows
> that a learning curve being _steep_ means that the item in question can
> be learned very quickly.
> 
> It's funny how many people think it means the opposite.

What if you plot amount of time it takes (on the Y axis) to learn an 
amount of material plotted on the X axis?

Leaving graphing conventions out of it, I've certainly always taken 
'steep learning curve' to mean one needs to spend a lot of time.  Is 
that not in fact what it means?
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