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How about not making it a race and just learning the shit out of any one algorithm at a time?

• chestervonwinch 10y ago
  because "learning the shit out of any one algorithm" is not a very well-defined goal and is at best, a locally optimal strategy. If the OP's goal is to become literate in a many topics, then learning those topics in broad strokes may be better than learning all the details up front. There often can be a vast literature on any one given topic or algorithm. Are you suggesting the OP acquire researcher-level expertise in everything? Everybody, at some point while learning, makes the decision as to whether or not they understand enough for their own purposes, and then chooses to dive deeper or move on to something else.
  • fuqted 10y ago
    Not to overuse buzz terms, but the idea of repeatedly grazing over new concepts without ever gaining a firm grasp of them is a textbook local max way of learning. Going deep on one algo at a time not only gives you a grasp of that individual algo; it gives you insight into computer science as a whole. Not to mention that over time it would also look like broad strokes
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