[2c2c2c]

it's a pretty narrow set of people that want or need to be able to memorize and recall a bunch of facts as efficiently as possible. mostly med school students and language learners, where this stuff obviously works.

[colin_jack]

Working in a fast changing but also wide and deep field like software I think being able to remember quite a few facts can be important.

[2c2c2c]

it's doable I guess. I think it's more productive to learn a concept and be able to derive everything about the concept from first principles instead though