Yes I was expecting this not the ads but the multiple streaming services.
We used to have TV channels now we have multiple streaming services each is in a way a channel. But it's hard to justify paying for a half dozen streaming services. Plus many push for another layer to pay for.
And I swear to god these streaming services monitor what you like and end the series with three shows to go taunt you about buying it.
Amazon in particular is bad for user interface and shows disappearing. They have older shows which is nice but the interface, the constant push to buy more, and just overall lack of innovation makes it feel blah. The lack of ads was the only good thing it had going for it! The lack of ads was the only good thing it had going for it now it's toast!
Surprised? I'm not. Given the history of cable, this was an inevitable outcome. Prime Video also looks very much like plain on cable nowadays, with a subacription only entitling one to basic channels. The rest all cost extra.
You may be mis-remembering old TV. A tiny number of companies produced a narrow range of programming and if you missed an episode, tough shit. Maybe you'd get a chance to see it in reruns someday if you were lucky. People would actually go out of their way to be home at certain times on certain days to catch the show they liked and were invested in. And of course all of this came with a 2:1 ratio of show to advertisement. And then there was the religiously-dominated abomination that was standards and practices...
> Maybe you'd get a chance to see it in reruns someday if you were lucky.
We're starting to come back to this from the long way around, though: I've had several shows and movies I wanted to watch, that I knew I used to be able to watch, which are no longer available on the service that I watched them.
And those "you need to start watching the movie within 5 days after renting it and must finish within 2 days". Might as well bring those DVD rentals back.
FAST or "Free advertising supported streaming television" sometimes include includes "FAST Channels" which are can resemble old-style network TV channels.
To name a few concepts: "Permutation & Combination", "Proofs with induction", "Probability". I did learn some of them from university courses, but writing code for them(in terms of coding problems) helped cement few of the them for me.
How did you apply induction proofs in competitive programming?
Even using recursion is rarely a good idea as you loose control with your memory layout.
And using a language that supports the concept of proof by induction would surely leave you on the absolutely last place for competitive programming as most of the algorithms used use guarantees that are extremely difficult to reason about even with some of the most recent advances in formal methods.
I do see how combinatorics work with competitive programming, though. and to an extend also probability theory, though I never used any probabilistic algorithms myself.
I think most problem sets would be hard to solve without use of dynamic programming, irrespective of recursion or not. But yes, recursion with memorisation/accumulation would be a good place to start.
It seems like Java and Python are only just starting to get a place in COMPETETIVE programming :) I definitely think we will have to wait before we get stuff like Haskell or Idris in there.
Thanks for sharing. Hope you’re doing well now. Wondering where do you write daily, is it like a physical diary or digitally?
I’ve started writing of late, but I like writing on a physical diary. The only problem I’ve with physical diary is searching the entries based on a word - which I often find myself in the need of.
I started with a physical diary because I'm obsessed with Muji pens and enjoyed the ritual of putting pen to paper without distractions. Later on I transcribed all the old entries to a journaling app because I filled the notebook and wanted to throw it away. I still use pen and paper sometimes. It feels more "intentional" somehow.
I'll either write quotes from a book by hand or type it out on some word processor. But there are times I've typed out or written out entire chapters from a book. And one book I almost transcribed pretty much from end to end.
I think it's pretty inefficient. And I definitely don't recall perfectly. But it does help a lot of the info lodge in deeper than just active reading. Might just be a belief I hold, and I don't really recommend others to do it because it's definitely a lil kooky and time consuming.
