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I majored in computer engineering and skipped algorithms so it was pretty intense studying for a couple of months before I felt comfortable. Overall I really en
by thebigspacefuck 4y ago
I majored in computer engineering and skipped algorithms so it was pretty intense studying for a couple of months before I felt comfortable. Overall I really enjoyed learning it but I made it through so many successful years of software engineering without learning it that I don’t think it’s relevant to most people. Even now I write an O(n) algorithm to merge sorted lists and people comment on my PR just tell me to throw everything in an array and use the sort function.
- shrimp_emoji 4y agoThe mindfuck when you realize cache locality can make an O(log n) algo faster than an O(1) algo, and the big-O analysis only really matters for extremely large data sets. :D