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<incomprehensibly>
hi ec
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<ec>
hi incomprehensibly!
<pikajude>
ugh
<pikajude>
I'm so bad at identifying dynamic programming problems
<pikajude>
help!
<ec>
what do you mean by ‘dynamic programming problems’
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<pikajude>
for interviews ec
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<pikajude>
for lots of questions the Right Answer is dynamic programming
<ec>
whatcha mean
<pikajude>
i.e. maintain a table of n states where each state is determined based on the previous states
<pikajude>
or something
<ec>
“ Resistance obtainable is from 0 omega to 11,111,110 omega in 1 omega increments”
<ec>
who the fuck
<ec>
calls them ‘omegas’ of resistance
<ec>
nooooooooooo
<ec>
when u read “do not ingest” as “do not incest”
<ec>
no, I will not incest my biocide
<jfhbrook>
idk what that means but it sounds bad
<pikajude>
thanks for the help
<pikajude>
you know what i'm really pissed off about
<pikajude>
this is the dumbest thing ever
<pikajude>
npm install for our codebase always fails because one of the build scripts uses the unix utility `touch`
<pikajude>
but one of the packages installed before that creates a node script that's also called `touch`
<pikajude>
so the build script tries to run `touch` and fails with a syntax error
<yorick>
pikajude: dynamic programming is basicaly mathematical induction
<pikajude>
how do i identify mathematical induction problems
<yorick>
you have a base case and then a step to extend to the next thingy
<pikajude>
isn't that just recursion
<pikajude>
this is where i get confused
<yorick>
yes, but in recursion you generally only use the last output and with DP you use all the outputs produced
<ec>
“Some hereditary, acupuncture and chiropractic coverage.”
<ec>
FOR YOUR DOG
<ec>
WHO GETS ACUPUNCTURE FOR THEIR DOG
<ec>
WHO DOES THAT
<ec>
I LOVE MY DOG
<yorick>
ec: people who think accupuncture works
<ec>
SHE'S STILL NOT GETTING ACUPUNCTURE
<ec>
I've never heard of this before, yorick
<yorick>
I'm not sure if the placebo would work on dogs
<ec>
no I mean
<yorick>
but they might identify it like a vet visit and those probably have a placebo effect
<ec>
‘dynamic programming’ being a name for inductive algorithms
<yorick>
the first example can go fuck itself, the second one seems ok
<pikajude>
fibonacci sequence seems easy
<ec>
omfg.
<ec>
is it strict, i.e. pure
<ec>
state N depends *strictly* on a subset of states ..N-1
<ec>
or is it literally just saying ‘this uses some previous state’ because that's a dumb thing to put a name to, especially one that doesn't include the word ‘state’
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