Wasted hour

[pcsailor]

Hi,

I just spent an hour solving a problem for the second time, one that I solved last week, but forgot I solved the problem last week.

And the solution was working and in my code!
See my signature? That's me right now!

Phil

[buran]

Back at school, when we were studding Russian as a foreign language, they have popular saying that Repeating is mother of learning. :-)

[metulburr]

Its not wasted time. Its learning.

There is a saying that you have to lose 100 games of Go before you become decent. Those 100 games might be discouraging, but you have to lose for a reason....to understand the patterns that get you in a bind.

source: Ive been playing a lot of Go lately

[Larz60+]

how many to become 1 dan?

[metulburr]

for some reason 1000 is the number popping in my head

im only 19k

[Larz60+]

that's just maybe 1000 16 hour days!
such a simple game with so many possible moves.