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Tuesday, July 17, 2007 07:02 PM
Original article: I hate buzzwords! It's not "carbon," it's "carbon dioxide"

Learning curve is knowledge vs. productivity

A steep learning curve means that you must learn a lot to be productive/efficient/make progress. The X axis is progress, not time. If the X axis were time, it'd be learning rate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_curve

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