> Algos to solve those both exact methods and heuristics are super useful in real world applications, and very underappreciated by the HN crowd IMO.
If you are in the HN crowd, the 'opposite' direction is useful:
Know that effective generic solvers exist for these problems (but don't worry about how they do it), and re-formulate many of the trickier problems you encounter in the languages of these solvers, instead of eg writing your own bespoke algorithm to assign tents at the company picnic.
If you are in the HN crowd, the 'opposite' direction is useful:
Know that effective generic solvers exist for these problems (but don't worry about how they do it), and re-formulate many of the trickier problems you encounter in the languages of these solvers, instead of eg writing your own bespoke algorithm to assign tents at the company picnic.