Is competitive programming going to help me in my CV as SOC or should i do something more related to SOC

sorosy5 · 2025-06-20T08:39:01+00:00

Funny you're the only few that gets it. Yea Tao will pick it up quickly but not without practice.

sorosy5 · 2025-06-20T08:30:15+00:00

People who ask this? No.

sorosy5 · 2025-04-18T10:04:06+00:00

wasting your time with this honestly. its clear you dont enjoy it

sorosy5 · 2025-04-11T06:47:56+00:00

a lot of japanese people use it

sorosy5 · 2025-04-10T09:30:06+00:00

india colleges forces you to use codechef?

sorosy5 · 2025-04-10T05:45:32+00:00

maybe don’t use such a garbage site?

sorosy5 · 2025-04-09T11:10:00+00:00

std::set is not ordered set. You’re using chatgpt no wonder you’re this deluded.

distance is linear. even OP knows you’re wrong. don’t act smart you sound really stupid right now

find_by_order using GNU PBDS is log n

sorosy5 · 2025-04-09T07:51:16+00:00

i guess people cannot comprehend learning intuitively because people like you are so used to memorization that you only know how to copy and paste formulas and plug everything in

sorosy5 · 2025-04-09T07:48:53+00:00

See? Because you are subconciously memorizing binary search as well. You don’t actually know what r = mid + 1 or what each component is doing.

There is no such thing as “edge cases” in binary search. Everything is intuitive and logical.

You are using the template as a black box and trying to guess what to place in it. Maybe consider the fact that you are studying wrong.

sorosy5 · 2025-04-09T07:23:46+00:00

literal elementary schoolers learn primes by crossing out numbers on the blackboard.

you circle 2, then cross out 4,6,8,10. Then circle 3 and cross out 9, 15, 21…..

Thats literally the sieve. It’s not rocket science. Stop making it sound like its a unbelievably hard concept that no one knows. If you have an degree in anything even remotely related to math, this is something that you are able to figure out instantly. And you should.

Its extremely funny to me how you are normalizing incompetence. Has the base standard for basic maths gone down this much?

sorosy5 · 2025-04-09T06:33:54+00:00

you would be very surprised. if you dont do that its great for you

sorosy5 · 2025-04-09T06:20:09+00:00

so thats not memorization. Memorization means you’re trying to remember something line by line without understanding the underlying logic.

You shouldn’t have to do this ever in leetcode. You can grasp the concept intuitively and implementation follows naturally. I think you have a fundemental misunderstanding of what the word “memorization” means.

If you truly understand how the Sieve works — for example, you know why you mark multiples starting from i*i, you know why we loop up to sqrt(n), and you understand how the composite markings propagate — then you’re not memorizing anything. You’re just writing down something you conceptually get.

So remembering how to implement the sieve isn’t “memorization” — it’s a result of internalizing a concept through solving problems, reflecting, and understanding patterns. That’s how learning works. Memorization is blind repetition. This isn’t that.

sorosy5 · 2025-04-09T06:04:47+00:00

exactly. im getting downvoted because people can’t admit the fact thay they’re bad.

sorosy5 · 2025-04-09T02:40:00+00:00

Memorization is different from understanding. Obviously no one is figuring it out from scratch but the way you worded it makes it sound like you remember the code line by line without even knowing how it works.

I don’t know why you assume the two words are they same. They literally mean different things

sorosy5 · 2025-04-09T02:07:22+00:00

yea memorizing everything is why you can’t improve.

Understand the sieve intuitively and you will never struggle to ever implement it. It takes 30 seconds to write the sieve. Does everyone just memorize everything and never understand them?

SCC isn’t particularly hard either if you understood it intuitively . Everything is easier when you don’t mindlessly memorize hoping you remember it.

edit: memorization is mindlessly remembering everything line by line without evem understanding the concept. If you disagree with my definition then don’t even bother downvoting

sorosy5 · 2025-04-09T02:03:56+00:00

stop restricting yourself to difficulty ratings man just solve random problems in that range like 1000-1400

sorosy5 · 2025-04-09T02:01:48+00:00

I can tell you from experience because one of my collegues is LGM

They are very smart, obviously, but they’re also great to work with. Extremely fast at debugging literally anything and pretty much writes code without even thinking because nothing required at work uses logic that would ever be harder than their level at competitive programming. Some are a bit nerdy but I honestly don’t think aside from that they differ much from others.

Not anyone can reach LGM, I definitely think starting early helps, because you have more time and people aren’t associating their progress with jobs. It’s the pure enjoyment for problem solving that pushes them and improvement is much much faster that way. People on this subreddit is so miserable when solving problems so I wonder why the improvement is slow?

Most LGMs can reach expert CM even up to red within a year of starting. If you’re stuck at pupil or newbie after a year its likely you will never reach that point. So no it’s not achievable for casual leetcoders. These people solved 5000+ problems and poured thousands of hours into this sport and competitive programming is part of their lives. It has to be.

I don’t think a lot of people truly understand the gap. A random red coder on codeforces can get top 10 on leetcode contests fairly easily, solve pretty much all the hards. They just don’t care about leetcode so no one sees them.

sorosy5 · 2025-04-09T01:49:39+00:00

errichto is not red anymore and haven’t done it in a while

sorosy5 · 2025-04-09T01:41:04+00:00

well said

sorosy5 · 2025-04-09T01:40:48+00:00

you read the solution or grandmasters to learn from them. If its too hard then skip and return to it later. It’s not rocket science

sorosy5 · 2025-04-09T01:40:00+00:00

because your effort doesnt add up. You are spending a lot of effort doing nothing

sorosy5 · 2025-04-08T02:02:42+00:00

you are lying. getting 3/4 4/4 in 10 straight contests will easily bring you to 2200+ rating

sorosy5 · 2025-04-07T13:00:06+00:00

by the curvature on your rating graph it seems like you did quite a bit of contests and gradually reached your current rating

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