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by G3E9 3642 days ago
> If you think of a Google or cheat sheet lookup like a disk access, well memory is faster than disk.

I like this analogy - not just its application to the current conversation, but because I consider myself to be understanding of a topic when I no longer have to look it up, but instead I know the topic in principle and all I lookup are minor details (maybe like an address in memory to find something on disk?)