> If the answer is the first, nothing beats hours of hacking and curiosity to learn in their free time.
Why need that be true? There's nothing in the nature of the problem to prevent there being a method for improving skills at a rate faster than hours spent hacking would. I just don't know what it might look like.
It's definitely the case that small study groups can accelerate learning, but it's so dependent on the composition of the groups that I don't think it's generalisable reliably. Dedicated one-on-one tuition can be astonishingly effective, but it's highly dependent on the tutor and again, not generalisable until we can figure out how to efficiently train tutors.
Why need that be true? There's nothing in the nature of the problem to prevent there being a method for improving skills at a rate faster than hours spent hacking would. I just don't know what it might look like.
It's definitely the case that small study groups can accelerate learning, but it's so dependent on the composition of the groups that I don't think it's generalisable reliably. Dedicated one-on-one tuition can be astonishingly effective, but it's highly dependent on the tutor and again, not generalisable until we can figure out how to efficiently train tutors.