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Re:Dynamic Programming for Technical Interviews by jogjayr on Friday March 15, 2019 @12:38AM (#19396621)
> If someone can learn to solve just DP problems by practicing in leetcode then DP is a useless metric or proxy of someone’s ability to reason mathematically.

I'm not a fan of DP but I don't follow this logic. Does practicing maths problems for an exam make the exam a useless metric of mathematical reasoning?

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Re:Dynamic Programming for Technical Interviews by meheleventyone on Friday March 15, 2019 @03:20AM (#19397355)
Depends on the exam but if the questions rarely vary much from the practice material then mathematical reasoning is definitely taking a back seat.
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