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While I totally get where you are coming from, I don’t think integration is necessary in 99% of usage. Sure, it helps people build intuition in the field they are specializing in, and for those people it can be invaluable, but having a better way to recall things would solve most use cases.

IMHO the biggest disservice to students in much of the education system in the US (including some colleges and universities ) is the focus on memorization vs focusing on problem solving. The older I get, the more I reflect on how much opportunity was wasted with poor quality teachers who just wanted us to memorize facts and be able to reproduce those facts in tests.

I don’t need to memorize maxwells equations to know that they exist, what they focus on, or how they can be applied to certain problem sets.



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