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Re:Show HN: ARC Prize – a $1M+ competition towards open AGI ... by com2kid on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @12:44AM (#40654611)
> This is ignoring the fact that babies are not just learning labels, they're learning the whole of language, motion planning, sensory processing, etc.

Sure, but they learn a lot of labels.

> How many homework questions did your entire calc 1 class have? I'm guessing less than 100

At least 20 to 30 a week, for about 10 weeks of class. Some weeks were more, and I remember plenty of days where we had 20 problems assigned a day.

Indeed, I am a huge fan of "the best way to learn math is to do hundreds upon hundreds of problems", because IMHO some concepts just require massive amounts of repetition.

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