I Think I Like DAA

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I Think I Like DAA

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The galaxy brain progression of algorithm design:

First, there's the caveman approach: brute force. Just try everything and eventually you'll find the answer. Sure, it might take until the heat death of the universe, but hey, it works... technically.

Then we graduate to Divide and Conquer (DandC) - splitting problems into smaller chunks. The algorithm equivalent of "I can't eat this whole pizza, so I'll cut it into slices."

Next level: Dynamic Programming (DP). Remember stuff so you don't solve the same subproblems repeatedly. Like writing down your ex's birthday so you don't accidentally text them congratulations again after the breakup.

But the true enlightenment? Proving your problem is NP-complete and therefore impossible to solve efficiently. "I can't solve this, and neither can anyone else, so I'm actually a genius." The ultimate big brain move in computer science - not solving the problem at all.

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