AllHailTheSheep

joined 1 year ago

liberals tend to be democrats and support democrat views. leftists want something better and tend to vote democratic as there's not really a better option. liberals tend to be center, even center right, while leftists are actually on the left

true! connotation is a weird thing.

[–] AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

don't get discouraged. sorting algorithms occur frequently in interviews, and yes you use them a decent amount (especially in languages without built in sorts like c) but they are one of the harder things to visualize in terms of how they work. I'd say avoid anything recursive for now until you can get selection and insertion down pat. check out geeksforgeeks articles on them, but also don't be afraid to Google willy nilly, you'll find the resource that makes it click eventually.

in terms of efficiency, it does become a little more difficult to grasp without some math background. big o is known as asymptomatic notation, and describes how a function grows. for example, if you graph f1(x)=15log(x) and f2(x)=x, you'll notice that if x is bigger than 19, then f2(x) always has a higher output value than f1(x). in computer science terms, we'd say f1 is O(log(n)), meaning it has logarithmic growth, and f2 is O(n), or linear growth. the formal definition of big o is that f(x) is O(g(x)), if and only if (sometimes abbreviated as iff) there exists constants N and C such that |f(x)| <= C|g(x)| for all x>N. in our example, we can say that C = 1, and N>19, so that fulfills definition as |15log(x)| <= 1|x| whenever x>19. therefore, f1(x) is O(f2(x)). apologies for just throwing numbers at you, (or if you've heard all this before) but having even just the most basic grasp of the math is gonna help a lot. again, in terms of best resources, geeksforgeeks is always great and googling can help you find thousands of more resources. trust that you are not the first person to have trouble with these and most people before you have asked online about it as well.

I also highly reccomend grabbing a copy of discrete mathematics and it's applications by Kenneth Rosen to dig farther into the math. there's a few other types of asymptomatic notation such os big omega and big theta, even little o, that I didn't mention here but are useful for comparing functions in slightly different ways. it's a big book but it starts at the bottom and is generally pretty well written and well laid out.

feel free to dm me if you have questions, I'm always down to talk math and comp sci.

edit: in our example, we could also pick c =19 and n = 1, or probably a few other combinations as well. as long as it fills the definition it's correct.

[–] AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 day ago (6 children)

female as an adjective for clarification (like "oh you're looking for that female doctor over there") is ok, female as a noun is just weird

that's how they get ya

[–] AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

white women really need to get their shit together. downright embarrassing

[–] AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

whats long, brown, and sticky? a stick.

what's long, blue, and sticky? a blue stick.

ive found kids live this due to the misdirection and then doubling down on it.

nothing says good times like a pedophile making decisions about women's bodies

please don't give them ideas

[–] AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)

indeed. the supreme Court said the president can do whatever the fuck they want, and instead of codifying roe v Wade, purging the supreme court, doing away with gerrymandering, or really anything helpful, the dnc decided a better option would be to hold it over everyone's heads and then blame voters when no one is motivated to do shit about it.

[–] AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

at the very least it can become a states rights issue and go to the supreme court, but with that in shambles I unfortunately agree

 
 
 
 
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