Nice work, this is a pretty cool project.
But fuck leetcode. With AI, its obsolete at this point.
Show HN: AlgoDrill – Interactive drills to stop forgetting LeetCode patterns
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
> We know for a fact that most of the people that master intellectual problems do so via pattern recognition, not by reasoning. Where is this fact stated, and who are "we" here? Sounds like an opinion or guess at best. > Not really understanding the negativity here There are two comments that could be read negativily, the rest is neutral or positive. I don't really understand the constant need for people to bring up…
There's lots of psychological and anthropological studies behind the fact that most experts in various fields excel due to pattern recognition not reasoning. Going back to the chess example, while chess masters are incredible at analyzing complex positions they can recognize as "similar to", their advantage over normal human beings is very small when positions are completely randomized. "Peak: Secrets from the New Sc…
> their advantage over normal human beings is very small when positions are completely randomized.
The book you referenced does not say they're comparable to normal players at playing from a random position.
Normal players are almost as good as them at recalling a nonsensical board of random pieces.
The suggestion that the advantage of a chess master over a normal player is "very small" at playing from a random position is laughable.
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#43sorry for asking: what does grinding LeetCode mean?
"grinding" is doing something repetitively, with the connotation that it is difficult and goal-oriented.
"farming" is the same but without the difficulty: just doing an easy but boring task repeatedly because it gets you something else that you want.
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#44...the f?! why are we interviewing ppl for things like this?! you either: (a) want DEEP understanding of math and proofs behind algorithms etc. (b) can get away with very high level understanding, and refer to documentation and/or use LLMs for implementation details help there is no real world use case for a middle-ground (c) where you want someone with algo implementation details rote-memorized in their brain and wi…
People are sheep. Someone somewhere used mathematical puzzles as interview questions. That someone became big. Others assumed it was because their interview process was amazing and followed blindly. Soon enough the process started to be gamed. I'm seeing this trend again in the field of AI where math olympiad participants are being given God like status by a few companies and the media. Truth is even the most prolifi…
Yes, and it's mostly the fault of a handful of companies like Google and Facebook that were started by founders who were still in college, so choose interview problems that look like CS algo puzzles instead of anything related to real work.
Re: Show HN: AlgoDrill – Interactive drills to stop forgetting LeetCode patterns
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's lots of psychological and anthropological studies behind the fact that most experts in various fields excel due to pattern recognition not reasoning. Going back to the chess example, while chess masters are incredible at analyzing complex positions they can recognize as "similar to", their advantage over normal human beings is very small when positions are completely randomized. "Peak: Secrets from the New Sc…
> their advantage over normal human beings is very small when positions are completely randomized. The book you referenced does not say they're comparable to normal players at playing from a random position. Normal players are almost as good as them at recalling a nonsensical board of random pieces. The suggestion that the advantage of a chess master over a normal player is "very small" at playing from a random posit…
I obviously meant it as a delta over the recognizable lines.
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#46sorry for asking: what does grinding LeetCode mean?
The phrase "grinding LeetCode" refers to a kind of unmentionable self-stimulus indulged in by people who want tech jobs money, but are bad at software engineering, and who want to work with other people who are bad at software engineering.
It was most popular during zero interest rate phenomenon, when there were numerous investment scams based on startup companies that could have a very lucrative "exit" for those running the scheme, despite losing money as a business.
LeetCode falls out of favor when companies realize they need to build viable businesses, and need software engineers rather than theatre performances.
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#47I like the idea, and you've got yourself a customer :) The lifetime membership + launch discount was a good marketing bait I felt for. Not really understanding the negativity here. We know for a fact that most of the people that master intellectual problems do so via pattern recognition, not by reasoning. You show a chess master a position, he/she can instantly tell you what the best moves are without "thinking" or "…
> Not really understanding the negativity here. We know for a fact that most of the people that master intellectual problems do so via pattern recognition, not by reasoning. > The lifetime membership + launch discount was a good marketing bait I felt for. The negativity here with me is because it feels like clickbait and like a scammy ad to manipulate me into purchasing. It is almost lying. I find it unethical and I…
I agree fully, which is why I called it a (good) marketing bait. Worked on me.
Might be because I'm also considering finding new clients/jobs, and apparently even for 2/3 months of collaborations people are sending me through several rounds of algo questions, so it was a nice add on top of my leetcode and codewars drills.
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#48Any company using leetcode as their primary way to assess competency is time wasting, soulless black hole unworthy of any real talent.
Used to be in the same camp here until I had to interview for a specialist role. I'd happily swap Leetcode rounds and doing away with the highly subjective - design a class hierarchy nonsense.
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#49This is a good product, the mechanism for me was an excel sheet. I wont sign up though, I've ground enough LC. These days I dont even prep for algorithm rounds and still manage to land offers. But I'd have appreciated this when grinding myself.
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#50Nice work, this is a pretty cool project. But fuck leetcode. With AI, its obsolete at this point.
Not really, its quite easy to tell if you havent prepped well. The place where AI is good is online assessments.