DrBob

I used to teach anatomy 20+ years ago. Sadly many of the skulls are sourced from the poorest people in impoverished countries. Companies pay a death benefit to the families or to the individual and then "harvest" the skull after death. They used to be priced based on the number of teeth and the presence of mandibular/maxillary degeneration. The highest priced skulls would come from donors and would have all their teeth.

Here's a link to the UCLA scandal if you want to get a feeling for how scummy the entire industry is

I'd just ignore it and play by pulse. You learn to ignore that stuff - out of time clapping, background noises etc.

I went with Ryobi under the rubric of "if you use it enough to break it then buy a good one". I have a wall of green tools because most of them are used only occasionally. My hammer drill is the one that is gonna go. And yeah. I will buy something f'in awesome. Because using an underpowered hammer drill sucked.

Be prepared for endless mockery no matter which direction you go. Best of luck sir.

Lol.

This drives me nuts too, but most of them fall into one of two categories. They are either B2B so don't care about individual consumers, or they are "lifestyle" businesses with basically one employee who doesn't or can't work excessive hours.

Ebbinghaus didn't integrate areas under the acquisition curve. He wasn't a mathematical psychologist.

Whatever that is, it's not a learning curve. Ebbinghaus defined it in his classic work.

That's where the confusion comes from, conflating the experience of walking up a steep hill vs an acquisition curve.

I thought that was a civil statement. I may be miscalibrated but I thought it was among the mildest of four letter words. I'd be happy to extend my vocabulary in the gentle art of dismissal.

I have given up on "steep learning curve". A learning curve is proficiency on the Y axis against time on the X. A steep learning curve indicates something that is learned very quickly. A shallow learning curve is something that takes a long time to master. See Ebbinghaus 1885.

Are you my brother-in-law?