> Only memorize those things where lookup adds too much latency/is impractical. One particularly useful form of this is keywords and jargon: If you memorize th

> Only memorize those things where lookup adds too much latency/is impractical. One particularly useful form of this is keywords and jargon: If you memorize the formal names of nebulous concepts, you’ll be in a much better position to look up the details when you need them. For example: “Encoding scheme derived from a tree of symbol frequencies” => “Huffman Coding” An internet or literature search for the latter term will turn up relevant results much more quickly than searching for the former directly.