Nobody uses DSA outside interviews Meanwhile, every second of your digital life: - Ctrl+F in browser → Boyer-Moore string matching - Copy-paste → Stack operations (Ctrl+Z = pop) - Browser back button → Stack-based page history - Swipe gestures → Queue processing touch events - Ad targeting → Graph analysis of user behavior - Banking transactions → Merkle trees for security - Amazon's search sorting your products → Merge Sort - Your phone's autocorrect → Tries + Edit Distance algorithms - Spotify shuffle avoiding same artist → Modified Fisher-Yates - Google's "did you mean" → Levenshtein Distance - Audio compression → Fast Fourier transforms - Stock trading → Priority heaps matching buy/sell orders
@theskilledcoder Truth is you are never going to be as good as people who discovered these algorithm because those who did were computer scientists who were math nerds and dedicated thier whole life to finding such things. We on the other hand need to be aware of these but not overly obssed
@theskilledcoder People think there exists methods for each of these algo 😭🙏
@theskilledcoder with this logic, you should study quantum mechanics; because you use electronics everyday, and it is just a QM wrapper.
@theskilledcoder Still, people are stuck in Leetcode ☠️
@theskilledcoder This does not prove anything. Point remains. Almost nobody implements DSA outside of interviews.
@theskilledcoder True that.....there is algorithm behind everything
@theskilledcoder These algos took time to build we cannot just learn them in 1 year or 6 months Even the interviewer is coming prepared for a question I feel asking basics is okay but too much grilling not until and unless you want to develop a system around it. @grok am i correct here ?
@theskilledcoder Smart people on X finally
@theskilledcoder Copy paste is a two stack approach. An efficient one
@theskilledcoder Google bot was based on quenes