• pinchcramp
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    76 months ago

    Am I understanding this correctly that dynamic programming == breaking a problem into smaller (reoccurring) sub-problems and using caching to improve performance?

    • @tatterdemalion
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      6 months ago

      It’s slightly more nuanced than that, but you’ve got the basic idea.

    • @MadhuGururajan
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      46 months ago

      The caching is kind of mandatory as the sub-problems interact.

    • @bitcrafter
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      45 months ago

      That is conceptually how dynamic programming works, but in practice the way you build the cache is from the bottom up rather than from the top down. It’s a bit like how you can implement computation of the Fibonacci sequence in a top-down manner using a recursive function with caching, but it is a lot more efficient to instead build it in a bottom-up manner.

  • @tatterdemalion
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    36 months ago

    “Daemon”, for a process that is detached from your terminal

    That’s factually incorrect. Daemons are often spawned from “early” processes whose ancestors are not TTYs.

    • @ericjmorey
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      “Cascading Style Sheets”, just to mean that properties can be overridden

      This one is really wrong too. But I think his overall point is made clear by other examples. Nomenclature tends toward jargon in software culture.

      But that’s true in any field.

    • @[email protected]
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      36 months ago

      No, seriously. Article probably means background processes. Maybe aplies to session-daemons or user-daemons. Other daemons (udev, logrotate) were started long before there was any shell.