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I don't understand how you could not see the value in having concepts like comonotonic stored in your brain instead of in Google.

I don't get how this perspective is always the top comment in every Anki thread: memorizing foreign language words is incredible and this tool is phenomenal, but why would you ever want to memorize any other information?

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Exactly. Derek Sivers gives some good examples for programming in this essay[1], e.g. overcoming a common mistake, cool trick or suprising feature of a language. These are obviously useful things to have immediately when you need them. I think the article lists some bad examples (not worth committing to memory) for programming to be honest.

[1] https://sivers.org/srs

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