CS301 Episode 1: What Makes an Algorithm Good, or Correctness Is the Floor, Not the Ceiling
A correct algorithm is only the beginning. The real question is whether it survives scale, tradeoffs, and production goblins…
Big O
Episode 8: Complexity and Efficiency, or Why Two Correct Programs Can Have Very Different Regret Levels
Why some correct programs still become disasters at scale – a funny, practical guide to Big O, efficiency, and avoiding algorithmic regret.
Episode 1: Maps, GPS, and Why Your Phone Knows a Shortcut You Don’t
If you have ever watched your GPS calmly reroute you around traffic like it planned this all along, congratulations: you have already trusted graph theory with your time, your fuel, and your sanity. This first episode of the mini graph theory series starts with the most familiar setting possible: maps. Streets are edges. Intersections are … Read more