Asked to recommend an intro algorithms text, I had no idea, but was curious and checked out the most popular ones. They’re all awful—not as books—but because the material covered shouldn’t be taught at that level. It’s mostly junk. Historical curiosities & intellectualization.
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The undergrad algorithms curriculum hasn’t changed since I took the course in 1979 (!). Highly reminded of Gian-Carlo Rota’s rant about differential equations—a topic everyone hates and that is totally obsolete, but undergraduates’ time is wasted on it. https://web.williams.edu/Mathematics/lg5/Rota.pdf …pic.twitter.com/569Wu9lcpi
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But ODEs are relevant again...in CS https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.07366
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Well… not at the undergrad CS level, though. (Also… after reading the abstract, I’m highly skeptical, but don’t want to take the time to read more :)
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It won a best paper award at NeurIPS, but this summary is more comprehensible:https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/01/09/neural-ordinary-differential-equations/ …
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Thanks! Read the post quickly, and think I mostly understand it. “High cuteness/usefulness ratio” would be my prediction, but… that’s what my girlfriend says about me, too.
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