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I’ve always believed that one of the best ways to learn is by a process of trial and error. Indeed, one of my favorite poems is the following ‘grook’ by Piet Hein:
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The road to wisdom?
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Well, it’s plain
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and simple to express:
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Err
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and err
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and err again
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but less
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and less
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and less
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Knuth, D.E. (1992). Learning from our Errors. In: Floyd, C., Züllighoven, H., Budde, R., Keil-Slawik, R. (eds) Software Development and Reality Construction. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76817-0_3
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