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by nugget 3559 days ago
That's a little like saying software developers spend all day googling for syntax. The "factoids" aren't very useful unless you know how to put them together and what to do with them.
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It's a very different kind of knowledge retrieval, i.e. knowledge about something as opposed how to do something. Your example doesn't really fit.