I do this for work and it works really well actually. I can’t tell you the number of problems I solve the next day, first thing in the morning. I’ll certainly try that tonight but it didn’t help I saw the frame this morning so I’ve had all day to realize how bad it is that I can’t recall a movie name.
Seriously though, this “I don’t have to remember things” business is part of what makes it so easy for the Fox’s and OANN’s of the world to rewrite recent history to suit their narrative.
You aren’t looking at this with optimism. Imagine being able to see porn directly in your brain while your in-laws blather on about something they watched on Fox news.
Well. I think the discussion here about using various search engines and stuff is different from the morons sitting in their living room and just having right wing bullshit pumped into their heads.
Oh hey. It’s real now I guess. :)
My point is they don’t have to be in their living rooms. If they search “what happened on Jan 6 2021” on their phone they’ll get a list of answers, and the ones from places they trust are from a completely alternate reality.
I know a few software languages VERY well, to where I rarely need help, aside from some IDE hints. There are others I program in where I just don’t remember the exact way to do things.
For example, I can slice an vector/list in R no problem, but fuck me if I remember exactly how to do it in python. It’s just a little bit different, and I rarely write python so I need to refresh my memory.
The important thing is that I can write all the pseudocode and see the data structures and algos I need to solve a problem. It’s just that I can implement it faster in some languages because I spend more time working with them.
Exactly describes me as well. Well not exactly because I’ve never touched R, but that’s how I am with various languages. Being able to quickly search for examples/syntax/facts/trivia is only beneficial to people who know the right concepts to synthesize that trivia into correct conclusions. The internet has (so far) only eliminated the “memorize trivia” aspect of that.
That’s the kind of thing you’d make your own cheat sheets for. Honestly, I’m starting to think they’re still the better idea, because sometimes you can’t get the search terms right.
One alternative that, of course, you download from the Internet now.
No, you look up the cheat sheet on the internet, you don’t make your own!
https://datascience-enthusiast.com/R/pandas_datatable.html
[There are like a million of these. Sometimes I wonder if the documentation for the language itself might be somewhat lacking if you need a million cheat sheets]
It often is, depending on the context and what you are recalling. Much of what we used to make students memorize was worthless, and is much better handled via the Internet, etc. Some stuff remains really useful to have on instant recall, though it can vary by individual situation.
The most important thing to me is teaching people how to parse the information they get to filter out bullshit and hone in on stuff that’s relevant to their needs and is accurate/honest/evidence-based. That, and simply searching skills. In a handful of seconds I can find scholarly articles and government documents bearing on a student’s research topic, while often they struggle to anything similar no matter how much time they have. It’s not that they are dumb or anything, either. They aren’t. It’s just that (I think) they never had to work with print-based research materials, write their own Boolean search queries, and stuff like that. Thus, they are at the mercy of whatever Google tosses up, and they think that is “searching.”
That’s just an extension of the yesteryear when we also had O’Reilly books on the bookshelf, with one of them being a cheat sheet, and also a vendor base command reference or three.
Think about this for a minute. How many offices even have a bookshelf anymore in offices or cubes? When was the last time you saw books at all the tech workers cubes? Where I’m at we’re about 5-6 years deep into, “open office.” There are no more bookshelves, or offices, period.