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Re:Youngest kid, smartest kid? by Kudzu_Bob on Saturday September 21, 2013 @01:08AM (#6422065)
Memory places things in context. We don't even know what we know unless we can remember it.
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Re:Youngest kid, smartest kid? by nitrogen on Saturday September 21, 2013 @03:11AM (#6422223)
The important thing to memorize is how to look up what you've learned but forgotten. You don't need to store the entire database in RAM, just the indexes.
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