> Memorisation
It is memoization, not memorisation! Although for two weeks in algorithms class I did in fact think our prof was just pronouncing memorize in a cutesy manner.
It is memoization, not memorisation! Although for two weeks in algorithms class I did in fact think our prof was just pronouncing memorize in a cutesy manner.
So if you see the word, you instantly know that this is the context. You wouldn't know that if you see "memorization".
Seeing the word memorize implies a process that an actor is undergoing and says nothing about the data being memorized. Seeing the word memoize implies the existence of an expensive function and implies a process of repeated calls to the function. It also implies the function is pure, i.e. you can't memoize calls to fread().
Memoization is close enough to "memorization" that you pretty much know what it is without having heard of it before and easily rememberable, while being specific enough to the actual concept as to be easily searchable and imply specific concerns of its own. That's a win-win in my book.
But that's part of it, you generally don't really associate that with memory until you get older...
Memorization makes me think of a repetitive process of committing something permanently to memory.