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Idk, if you're doing the same thing after your training that you were doing before, you either didn't need training or you weren't successfully trained.
It's an idiom, it's not meant to be a clinical diagnosis. Like, yeah if you're psychiatrist says it to you qnd tries to have you institutionalized, that's obviously a problem. But I highly doubt that's ever happened, certainly not in the modern age.
Ultimately, it's actually the same exact idea as "Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it," but in less politically correct terms.
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For the training, I'd argue that you're not trying to get different results.
Each time, the result is minor growth in whatever your goal is, be it strength, muscle mass, or endurance, etc.
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think the meme has some grounds for truth. of course it was designed to be a dramatic speech for a scary character but it has some grounds to it: this may not be the truth but its how it feels. By doing the same thing over and over again and seeing no chance you go insane, and as such it feels like doing so is asking for insanity, thus the characters speech!
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You're also in a meme community, commenting on a meme, so while technically correct, it's not super relevant.
it's also what i do when i run my programs over and over again hoping the bugs fix themselves
For me, it's the definition of Flamin' Hot Cheetos.
Yeah but Vaas is iconic and absolutely arresting in every scene he's in.
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Iconic only for those who played it or randomly encountered him via meme propagation.
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Doing the same thing over and over with an expectation to see differing results is also science.
Actually when you create a hypothesis and test it and prove it out, it is meant to be 100% repeatable by anyone following the metgod. Otherwise your method or hypothesis is wrong.
Right, but the reason you run the experiment repeatedly is to test the validity of the hypothesis. You're looking for something different to happen. That's the point behind rerunning the tests.
Right, but if you find a difference you alter the method or hypothesis, to get repearbility. An insane person (not neccessarily crazy person, but one that doesn't follow sane rationalizarion) will keep repeating exact same thing.
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But also if you keep running the compiler without changing any of the code hoping for the errors to be magically gone, you are insane. So there's the same logic being applied to insanity in computer science
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If you're getting different results it's because you're adjusting something. That's training.
What a lovely twist on an annoying misattributed quote!
Not to mention it's always attributed to Albert Einstein which is not something he said and not something he would ever have said. Doesn't stop people from continuing to invoke this "definition of insanity" as if its a smart thing to say.
Also, even if true it's always misapplied to situations where somebody is doing something that has some similarities with a thing done in a different way in a different situation at a different time.
Doing the same thing over and over with an expectation to see differing results is also science.
Doing the same thing over and over with an expectation to see differing results is also science.