[sf-lug] "steep learning curve" (was: Re: SF-LUG meeting notes of Sunday March 1, 2020)

[Michael Paoli]

Hmmm, looks like *both*, to me.  8-O
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_curve#In_culture

Context matters.  There are other words/phrases, that are their own
opposites.  Again, context matters.
 From my quick skims, looks like the "difficult" interpretation didn't
start until about the 1970s ... but may now be as or more
prevalent now in much cultural usage.  :-/

Y-Axis looks relatively straight-forward,
easy fast learn would seem to fit more conventional definitions/uses of
the X-Axis ... might be able to come up with an X-Axis definition that
would well/better fit the "difficult" interpretation ... but that would
likely require a relatively atypical, and perhaps even counter-intuitive,
use of the X-Axis and whatever is defined for it.

> From: "Rick Moen" <rick at linuxmafia.com>
> Subject: Re: [sf-lug] SF-LUG meeting notes of Sunday March 1, 2020
> Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2020 20:44:34 -0800

> Quoting Alex Kleider (akleider at sonic.net):
>
>> 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?
>
> It's not.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_curve