Re:Never mind talent: Practice, practice, practice
by kiba on Sunday December 02, 2012 @06:08PM
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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. 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.
Re:Never mind talent: Practice, practice, practice
by scott_s on Sunday December 02, 2012 @11:06PM
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Rarely, however, does one need to spend extra time memorizing things. Memorization happens naturally as you solve problems, and see and use the same things over and over.
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.