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Sander Rossel30-Mar-22 20:37
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GeneralGetting the algorithm right Pin
trønderen30-Mar-22 10:21
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Spurred by this week's survey (Do you get up in the middle of the night to code because you can't sleep?[^]):

How much of your work hours and/or mental energy goes to find an "algorithmic solution" to your problem?

I have been coding for a few decades, but my experience is that at least 90% of my time and energy goes to collecting background information, putting pieces together (rather mechanically), typing the code, writing tests, managing the build scripts, reading compiler listings and logs, writing documentation, presenting stuff to coworkers, ... I cannot recite all sorts of algorithms by heart, so sometimes I dig up a text (or open-source code) describing how to solve the problem. Very rarely am I stuck with a problem where I cannot quite easily either devise a method (usually composed from a set of partial solutions), or where I can find a workable solution in literature or on internet.

Those 'eureka moments' are for the most part limited to when I understand the logic in a textbook presentation of an algorithm. I can't imagine not falling asleep because I am unable to devise a new, great, hitherto unknown algorithm.

Of course: If you are an advanced research scientist in a field such as eg. numerical methods, then you job is to develop new algorithms for the algorithm's sake. Few of us are.

Maybe I am different. Do you really spend any significant fraction of your working hours or mental capacity on developing new methods/algorithms?
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