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learning-curve

25 notes carry this tag — 16 claims, 2 questions, 6 captures, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

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  The line no one walks
  essay draft 2026-07-18 · learning-curve, scaling-laws, wrights-law, averaging-artifact, history-of-psychology

Everything else

• Does Wright's law trace cleanly to T.P. Wright's 1936 paper, and do the New Things Under the Sun / Our World in Data restatements match the original mechanism?
  capture promoted 2026-09-05 · economics, wrights-law, learning-curve, experience-curve, tp-wright-1936
• Wright's own 1936 formula is a power law of cumulative production quantity, log-log linear — not a function of calendar time
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-05 · economics, wrights-law, learning-curve, tp-wright-1936, cost-curves
• T.P. Wright's 1936 airplane-cost paper is real, locatable, and cited accurately by Our World in Data down to the page range
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-05 · economics, wrights-law, learning-curve, tp-wright-1936, aviation-history
• Wright's 1936 paper reports four distinct learning curves, not one flat 80% — the whole-airplane composite rises from 83% to 90% as quantity scales
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-05 · economics, wrights-law, learning-curve, tp-wright-1936, cost-curves
• Wright's own '80% curve' is defined over a whole production lot's average cost, not an individual unit's cost — a distinction the modern restatements drop
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-05 · economics, wrights-law, learning-curve, tp-wright-1936, cost-curves
• David & Brachet (2011) decompose organizational forgetting into a continuous skill-decay channel and a discrete turnover-loss channel
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-11 · organizational-forgetting, learning-curve, catastrophic-forgetting, cross-domain-bridge, economics
• David & Brachet (2011) find labor turnover contributes twice the organizational forgetting that skill decay does
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-11 · organizational-forgetting, economics, quantitative, learning-curve
• Averaging biases a learning curve toward a power shape only when individual rate parameters vary — the distortion is proportional to that variability (Heathcote et al. 2000, after Myung, Kim & Pitt 1998)
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-01 · power-law, learning-curve, averaging-artifact, exponential-law-of-practice, cognitive-psychology
• The power law of practice is an averaging artifact — individual learners speed up exponentially, and only the group-averaged curve looks like a power law
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-25 · power-law, learning-curve, exponential-law-of-practice, skill-acquisition, cognitive-psychology
• Does Benkard (2000) report the organizational-forgetting depreciation rate (~0.96 monthly, ~61% of experience surviving a year) that the L-1011 learning-reversal claim rests on?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-24 · economics, learning-curve, organizational-forgetting, aircraft-manufacturing, benkard
• Benkard's (2000) L-1011 depreciation estimate implies far less organizational forgetting than the two prior studies his specification builds on
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-24 · economics, learning-curve, organizational-forgetting, aircraft-manufacturing, benkard
• Benkard's (2000) headline 0.96 depreciation figure is the spillover-adjusted specification, not the simplest one
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-24 · economics, learning-curve, organizational-forgetting, aircraft-manufacturing, benkard
• ASML's cumulative EUV lithography shipments grew far too slowly to satisfy Sahal's identity's exponential-production precondition
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-18 · semiconductor-economics, wrights-law, moores-law, euv, asml
• The experience curve originates in an 1899 psychology study of telegraph operators — whose learning curve had plateaus that Wright's 1936 industrial law smoothed away
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-18 · learning-curve, experience-curve, wrights-law, history-of-psychology, telegraphy
• Nordhaus argues the learning-curve coefficient is statistically unidentified and biased upward — a zero-learning process still fits a coefficient of 0.2
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-18 · economics, learning-curve, experience-curve, wrights-law, econometrics
• Organizational forgetting can run the learning curve backwards: on the Lockheed L-1011, unit costs rose when production slowed
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-18 · economics, learning-curve, experience-curve, organizational-forgetting, aircraft-manufacturing
• Does Benkard (2000) report the organizational-forgetting depreciation rate (~0.96 monthly, ~61% of experience surviving a year) that the L-1011 learning-reversal claim rests on?
  question answered 2026-07-18 · economics, learning-curve, organizational-forgetting, aircraft-manufacturing, sourcing
• Sahal's identity names the exact condition under which the EUV mirror moat must be calendar-time tacit knowledge, not a production-volume learning curve
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-16 · semiconductor-economics, wrights-law, moores-law, tacit-knowledge, learning-curve
• The power law of practice was repealed as an averaging artifact of exponential individual learners — and 2026 neural-scaling-law papers report the identical artifact
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-16 · power-law, learning-curve, scaling-laws, cognitive-psychology, neural-scaling-laws
• Sahal's identity: Wright's Law and Moore's Law become mathematically indistinguishable when cumulative production grows exponentially in calendar time
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-15 · economics, wrights-law, moores-law, learning-curve, technological-forecasting
• Wright's law: unit cost falls a constant fraction with every doubling of cumulative production
  claim budding Tier 3 2026-07-12 · economics, wrights-law, learning-curve, experience-curve, price-dynamics
• Does Wright's law trace cleanly to T.P. Wright's 1936 paper, and do the New Things Under the Sun / Our World in Data restatements match the original mechanism?
  question answered 2026-07-12 · economics, wrights-law, learning-curve, sourcing
• The learning curve can't tell you whether a cost collapse will last
  capture promoted 2026-07-11 · learning-curve, experience-curve, wrights-law, technology-forecasting, cost-decline
• Real cheaper-extraction disruptions fell monotonically (aluminium, AI inference), not on the AstroForge hold-then-collapse curve
  capture promoted Tier 4 2026-07-11 · economics, commodity-markets, price-dynamics, learning-curve, wrights-law