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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > YOSPOS > Why you anyone think P=NP
 
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Sweevo
Nov 8, 2007

i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

 i don't actually know what P/NP/NP-hard/NP-complete are and every time i try reading the wiki article my eyes glaze over

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Sweevo
Nov 8, 2007

i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

 P=ENIS

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Sweevo
Nov 8, 2007

i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

OldAlias posted:

cs texts are lol and a racket. unless the material and tests closely follow it find a bunch of other resources as supplement. our course used sedgewick which is worthless for a good portion of the class. he invents his own notation which no one uses because he has problems with Big O - but his problems are addressed with theta and omega, which i guess he never heard of.

visualizations are good (animations, graphs (assuming proper scales) etc) for an intuitive understanding of things. the math you just have to keep hammering at until you recognize patterns and strategies and then everything is almost mechanical

everything i know about algorithms comes from this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPRA0W1kECg

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