{"id":35652,"date":"2022-04-21T14:52:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T18:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=35652"},"modified":"2022-04-21T14:52:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T18:52:47","slug":"applying-computer-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/21\/applying-computer-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Applying Computer Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sandofsky\/status\/1508856837965189122\">Ben Sandofsky<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sandofsky\/status\/1508856837965189122\">\n<p>People seem to think Computer Science all data structures and sorting algorithms, when that&rsquo;s maybe 5% of CS.<\/p>\n<p>So for folks just starting out, I made a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lQ2DB5TPH1o\">short intro<\/a> to a different area of CS, and a powerful tool I use every day: the transform matrix.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ymCXsPwg8G8\">Ben Sandofsky<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ymCXsPwg8G8\"><p>I don&rsquo;t think sorting algorithms are the best introduction to Computer Science. So let&rsquo;s talk through a real world example of speeding up a blurring algorithm. We touch on time complexity (&ldquo;Big O&rdquo;) and what a quadratic algorithm looks like.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Q4Y6ERYAwqw\">Steve Yegge<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Q4Y6ERYAwqw\">\n<p>A commenter asked if I could talk about whether you need a CS degree to be in Big Tech and make it as a software engineer.  So that&rsquo;s the topic for today!<\/p>\n<p>In this episode, I talk about what you would actually need to study in order to get the equivalent of a CS degree, and I also call our the most core fundamental stuff[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Sandofsky: People seem to think Computer Science all data structures and sorting algorithms, when that&rsquo;s maybe 5% of CS. So for folks just starting out, I made a short intro to a different area of CS, and a powerful tool I use every day: the transform matrix. Ben Sandofsky: I don&rsquo;t think sorting algorithms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-04-21T18:52:50Z","apple_news_api_id":"0ecac05e-2183-4ce0-ab70-44dd10f402f6","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-04-21T18:52:50Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ADsrAXiGDTOCrcETdEPQC9g","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[200,263,1604,31,2078,26,259,71],"class_list":["post-35652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category","tag-autolayout","tag-theory","tag-halide","tag-ios","tag-ios-15","tag-iosapp","tag-math","tag-programming"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35653,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35652\/revisions\/35653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}