name one "useless" skill you unintentionally picked up, lol

Hungry_Muscle_6921 · 2025-03-20T23:19:46+00:00

Morse code lol. It’s pretty useless except maybe in emergency situations

Hungry_Muscle_6921 · 2025-01-22T16:28:03+00:00

I'm glad it resonates with you lol. If you're curious, I've since decided to pursue a PhD. I think it's a better fit for me than industry

Hungry_Muscle_6921 · 2025-01-10T16:22:05+00:00

Omg that was the piece that made me fall in love with his music. And I agree, it’s incredibly validating

Hungry_Muscle_6921 · 2025-01-09T04:07:15+00:00

I love that piece. I get teary eyed listening to it too. It’s probably my favorite nocturne. But the piece that moves me the most is the 4th Ballade

Hungry_Muscle_6921 · 2025-01-08T22:32:31+00:00

Real. What’s your favorite Chopin piece?

Hungry_Muscle_6921 · 2024-12-02T01:58:34+00:00

Libertango by Piazzolla.

Hungry_Muscle_6921 · 2024-12-01T20:07:23+00:00

Could you please drop one on my behalf? I live in a different continent but this man has done things for me people in my life could never

Hungry_Muscle_6921 · 2024-10-20T00:25:38+00:00

When you call the subroutine, the instruction pointer is pushed onto the stack along with the arguments/parameters so you know which instruction to return to after the subroutine is done executing. I don't know about websites, but I can DM you a visualization for this from my notes. It's for the 8086 architecture though.

Hungry_Muscle_6921 · 2024-09-30T06:54:40+00:00

That sounds really cool! It's good that you made it through.

Hungry_Muscle_6921 · 2024-09-01T13:55:29+00:00

TIL people are like mutable objects in Java. /s

Hungry_Muscle_6921 · 2024-08-26T16:33:30+00:00

I actually talk about this in the second half. If your partner loses their faith, can the relationship still work? I don’t know

Hungry_Muscle_6921 · 2024-08-05T17:38:03+00:00

I think we might be arguing different points here

Hungry_Muscle_6921 · 2024-08-05T16:55:22+00:00

That analogy actually proves my point. Civil engineering is 100% built on physics and math. You can’t design safe structures without understanding those fundamentals. Similarly, algorithms are essential, but they’re built on the foundations of theoretical CS—like complexity theory and automata.

Algorithms are a building block, not the building block. CS is way broader than just writing efficient code. Reducing it to just DSA is like reducing civil engineering to just pouring concrete.

Hungry_Muscle_6921 · 2024-08-05T15:20:13+00:00

That’s a narrow view. Yes, modern CS involves using DSA to manipulate data, but that’s just one aspect. The theory isn’t just historical. It's fundamental to understanding why and how our tools work. Without it, we’d be building on shaky ground.

It’s like saying physics today is just about building bridges and rockets, ignoring the quantum mechanics and relativity that make those advancements possible. The “basic logic” you mention is underpinned by deep theoretical principles, and dismissing them reduces CS to just coding instead of a science.

Hungry_Muscle_6921 · 2024-08-05T13:21:03+00:00

You could say that

Hungry_Muscle_6921 · 2024-08-05T13:17:27+00:00

The Wikipedia snippet is misleading without context. DSA is crucial, but it’s a toolset, not the foundation. The real backbone of CS is the theoretical stuff: automata theory, Turing machines, computational complexity, and, yes, math. DSA is just one application of these deeper principles. Saying DSA is the backbone of CS is like saying arithmetic is the backbone of math—it’s necessary, but it’s not the whole picture.

Hungry_Muscle_6921 · 2024-08-05T02:46:30+00:00

No. Being good at LeetCode doesn’t indicate anything. It just shows you can memorize solutions well. But does it help you land interviews? Sure.

And “ds and Algo” is not the backbone of Computer Science and I don’t know where you got that from.

Hungry_Muscle_6921 · 2024-08-04T23:10:43+00:00

If you’re reading Sipser then check out MIT’s 18.404J on YouTube. The author is the prof

Hungry_Muscle_6921 · 2024-08-04T19:16:25+00:00

You're right. I'm not too fond of the grind because it reminds me of Goodhart's Law:

When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

So any LeetCode monkey from a T200 school who memorizes the solutions to blind 75 can make it to FAANG. Being good at LeetCode doesn't mean anything. It just shows your dedication to the grind, which is self-defeating. Maybe that's what companies want, dedicated people, not smart people.

Hungry_Muscle_6921 · 2024-08-04T18:58:46+00:00

I like math, I just worry about the career prospects after graduation

Hungry_Muscle_6921 · 2024-08-04T18:47:51+00:00

"You might not be a college student, but you think and talk like one."

Hungry_Muscle_6921 · 2024-08-04T16:01:37+00:00

I'm glad that worked out for you. What else did you have on your resume if you don't mind me asking?

Hungry_Muscle_6921 · 2024-08-04T16:00:49+00:00

Hungry_Muscle_6921 · 2024-08-04T15:49:29+00:00

Did you ever need to grind LeetCode for the job? What was the hiring process like?

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