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RE: Humans Are Not Smarter Than Other Forms Of Life, Just Different
One thing:
In engineering and in programming one thing matters the most; efficiency. If one has to write 50 lines of code for a specific function while another fellow uses only 2 lines then the former will be inefficient and possibly laggy.
Judging an algorithm by length is not always a good idea. The most efficient algorithms are often fairly complicated in practice. Examples:
- Bubblesort vs quicksort
- Matrix multiplication. BLAS and LAPACK are humongous libraries more or less specializing in doing matrix multiplication efficiently.
- Multiplication. Karatsuba multiplication is more efficient than the normal long multiplication taught in schools. The advantage is only noticeable with large inputs.
yeah, i seemed to have gone a little bit off there but I was hoping to get a simple message across
A naive and uneducated message would be more accurate.