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That's a tautology. Memorization of some facts is useful. It's probably best when the memorization happens as a side effect of the knowledge being used frequent
by carbocation 14y ago
That's a tautology. Memorization of some facts is useful. It's probably best when the memorization happens as a side effect of the knowledge being used frequently.
- willvarfar 14y agoI recall a Grace Hopper interview where she said you had to memorize the heirarchy of the navy; you couldn't derive it.
- Cushman 14y agoLet's invert that and close the loop: memorization is by nature a side-effect of accessing knowledge for some useful purpose. Accessing knowledge for no purpose but to memorize it is, by that definition, pointless.