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I disagree that what makes people efficient problem solvers is having an "inner world of factoids". Of course it does matter, because latency of lookup matters
by kiba 14y ago
I disagree that what makes people efficient problem solvers is having an "inner world of factoids".
Of course it does matter, because latency of lookup matters. He could spent it one hour googling things up or he can spend one minute remembering something and using it. That requires memorization.
The wisdom part to use the standard library instead of implementing something something from scratch is just extra efficiency.