What is the big idea with algorithms?
TriinT: "I'm a non-CS major and am much unlike many of you mathematical whiz kids who make up this board"Are there any math whiz kids on HN? (other than cperciva)There are many smart people on HN, but I don't think there are math whiz kids. This is a hacker forum, not a math forum like AoPS. Sometimes we discuss stuff like complexity and algorithms, but most of the time, we rant on Ruby x Python or why kids these days want to build social networks for dogs instead of sending astronauts to Mars, or why big corporations are evil and small startups rock, or why PG is a supreme master and every single essay of his is nothing less than the truth. We are such cool kids we even have our own hacker-ghetto slang... including hideous terms like "ramen-profitable" ;-)I know a forum where there's even a Fields medalist, and that is on quantitative finance. Whoever says that HN is made of math whiz kids probably knows very little math.