So apparently someone with a Lantronix bias, or an anti-Digi bias, has moderated the reply mentioning the Digi Connect ME out of sight, which is a direct competitor to the Lantronix XPort.
Now why would anyone do that? Maybe it's time for me to finally check out this meta-moderation thingy... yeah, I'm a lazy lurker.
Karmageddon wrote: Steep learning curves show fast learning.
Which I think is exactly the common understanding, and makes perfect sense in the X->time, Y->capability graph.
If you want to pick a nit over the common usage, I'd pick on ascribing the steep curve to the subject matter rather than to the person doing the learning in a particular context.
If Yu is the level of capability needed to perform some useful task, then the amount of time available to reach Yu can determine the slope of the required learning curve.
The steep slope of the curve comes from the pointy-haired manager saying "use this new technology for the project that's got to be done in two weeks." He'd better say it to someone with the chops to climb that curve, or else corporate business as usual will ensue.
Or maybe a better way to understand it is to say that being able to "climb a steep learning curve" means that an individual's typical learning curve (their ability to rapidly improve capability) must be steeper than the one required by the situation.
I find it interesting to think about this from the perspective of the notion of memes. What has evolved from human consciousness is a rich ecosystem that generates and values an enormous diversity of information. Thinking about what will be preserved, and how, gives rise to an image of our several billion minds, aided by technology as simple (!) as spoken language or as complex as electro/magneto/optical storage, operating as a kind of primordial informatic soup.
Out of this fecund brew maybe, just maybe, a carrier as successful as DNA will emerge, with the capability to preserve the "best" of the information. Maybe it already has, in plain old text, which will be decipherable for as long as the bits can be gotten at, and which then has the benefit of the redundancy of human languages for further decoding and understanding. Then we drop down to the question of how exactly the bits manage to survive, and it seems the only ultimate answer is some human has to care enough to refresh them. Or be clever enough to teach them to take care of themselves.
It also seems clearly impossible that everything can be preserved, and also impossible that what is preserved will always be something to be proud of. Some extinctions, however tragic, are inevitable, and some, however richly deserved, never occur. It's part of the beauty (and maybe mercy) of conscious life that there are moments that will never appear again, can never be adequately captured for later replay. Being aware of that fact is what encourages us once in a while to put down the camcorder, shut off the microphones, maybe even try to still the stream of words in our heads, and just drink it in.
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So apparently someone with a Lantronix bias, or an anti-Digi bias, has moderated the reply mentioning the Digi Connect ME out of sight, which is a direct competitor to the Lantronix XPort.
Now why would anyone do that? Maybe it's time for me to finally check out this meta-moderation thingy... yeah, I'm a lazy lurker.
Which I think is exactly the common understanding, and makes perfect sense in the X->time, Y->capability graph.
If you want to pick a nit over the common usage, I'd pick on ascribing the steep curve to the subject matter rather than to the person doing the learning in a particular context.
If Yu is the level of capability needed to perform some useful task, then the amount of time available to reach Yu can determine the slope of the required learning curve.
The steep slope of the curve comes from the pointy-haired manager saying "use this new technology for the project that's got to be done in two weeks." He'd better say it to someone with the chops to climb that curve, or else corporate business as usual will ensue.
Or maybe a better way to understand it is to say that being able to "climb a steep learning curve" means that an individual's typical learning curve (their ability to rapidly improve capability) must be steeper than the one required by the situation.
I find it interesting to think about this from the perspective of the notion of memes. What has evolved from human consciousness is a rich ecosystem that generates and values an enormous diversity of information. Thinking about what will be preserved, and how, gives rise to an image of our several billion minds, aided by technology as simple (!) as spoken language or as complex as electro/magneto/optical storage, operating as a kind of primordial informatic soup.
Out of this fecund brew maybe, just maybe, a carrier as successful as DNA will emerge, with the capability to preserve the "best" of the information. Maybe it already has, in plain old text, which will be decipherable for as long as the bits can be gotten at, and which then has the benefit of the redundancy of human languages for further decoding and understanding. Then we drop down to the question of how exactly the bits manage to survive, and it seems the only ultimate answer is some human has to care enough to refresh them. Or be clever enough to teach them to take care of themselves.
It also seems clearly impossible that everything can be preserved, and also impossible that what is preserved will always be something to be proud of. Some extinctions, however tragic, are inevitable, and some, however richly deserved, never occur. It's part of the beauty (and maybe mercy) of conscious life that there are moments that will never appear again, can never be adequately captured for later replay. Being aware of that fact is what encourages us once in a while to put down the camcorder, shut off the microphones, maybe even try to still the stream of words in our heads, and just drink it in.