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Re:Creativity fundamentally comes from memorization by kqr on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @07:03AM (#41118055)
My argument is that it is worth memorising also the derivations, rather than re-deriving from scratch each time.

Meorising the derivation makes it easier to derive a second-order derivation, and so on. At some level of abstraction, going from first principles becomes prohibitively expensive and caching intermediary results, or so to speak, unlocks that again.

Re:Creativity fundamentally comes from memorization by naasking on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @07:55AM (#41118381)
Sometimes yes, just like jargon is sometimes useful. Why use long-winded terms or descriptions when shorthand works between professionals.