I think it is a philosophical question. It's like saying "I know maths",
which is a ridiculous phrase I was surprised to hear, let alone
surprised to hear often.
Can someone know everything there is to know about something ? I doubt
it. The point, at least for me, isn't to know everything .. But the
ability to find out.
I consider myself ignorant in almost everything, that's because I ask
myself a lot of questions about a lot of things I ignore. The point is
following up and looking things up so that you know them.
I knew many things I wasn't even aware existed. What this (constant
questions) does is that it gives a lot of information that is networked
(and you make a lot of connections between seemingly unrelated topics).
I'll give an example: I had a class in my second year in college about
nuclear and atomic physics. There was a chapter about the Doppler
effect. I was able to grasp it easily, because when I was a kid, it
happened I took magazines in the bathroom to read, and I've read about it.
Having a déjà-vu impression in a lot of things and to be able to make
analogies of concepts and principles has helped me tremendously. When I
got into college and started programming PIC microcontrollers, having
tinkered with Intel assembly language in high-school (disassembling
executables and tinkering with them) was definitely a plus (Registers,
operands, carry operations, hexadecimal, addresses).
When in the first year we started Pascal, I already did things in Delphi
when I was in high-school. But then again, I also did tinker with C in
middle-school (really basic stuff) and BASIC as a child.
Do I know Python ? No. I don't think I ever will. But I am confident I
will be able to do what I cannot do right now, and the complexity of the
things I will be able to do will increase, as will my ability to
simplify complex things.
It's a converging exponential, as a capacitor charging. The goal is to
minimized the time constant so you get at about 63.2% fast. The
incremental 1%s will take years and I don't think you'll ever hit 100%,
not even after decades. Sorry :)
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