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LeetCode is an excellent collection of problems you’ll never encounter in real life. If you don’t have a computer science background you might learn some things. Otherwise, it’s just solving silly problems for the sake of solving silly problems.

It reminds me of when my college required linear algebra for my degree. Learning things that I knew without a shadow of a doubt I would never put to use again.



Funny, linear algebra is essential if you want to do anything machine learning or graphics related.

More so than LeetCode




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