1657. Determine if Two Strings Are Close - Day 14/31 Leetcode January Challenge

Larry solves and analyzes this Leetcode problem as both an interviewer and an interviewee. This is a live recording of a real engineer solving a problem live - no cuts or edits!
Problem: leetcode.com/p...
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#leetcode #coding #programming

[@Algorithmist]

Were your strings close?

[@SarveshRansubhe]

Really like these sessions where you share your knowledge outside the problem. 😃

[@huskytusky1706]

Couldnt agree more

[@ingenieroriquelmecagardomo4067]

You are an inspiration Larry. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us

[@mwnkt]

i love how you show the mistakes, it helps me understand how you're handling every usecase. loved the long intro btw 😅😅

[@huskytusky1706]

Great intro man. I listened to the whole thing - really grateful to have someone as good as you share your thoughts honestly and unedited. I agree that people give up too easily and like to blame things like "IQ" for their shortcomings.

[@ingenieroriquelmecagardomo4067]

It's just like any other skill lol. It's like learning a human language, but instead of communicating with other people you learn to speak to the machine / compiler, if you give up before doing blind 75 / neetcode 150 guided, at least twice, you didnt even really try in my opinion.

[@parakhchaudhary7453]

What are the chances, I used to do lc regularly so was watching your videos almost daily back in 21(?) during undergrads when you posted this quote originally. Now I'm doing my masters after 2 years of work and coincidentally you bring this up again. Great saying and thank you for including these bits

[@Algorithmist]

It is a great quote, I should do more of these!

[@kravadecko5466]

Kind of late, but to address what you mentioned on topic of "why people choose to watch other videos" is a mixture of the availability heuristic, which originates from the intellectual sloth. Also, on the topic of differentiating between being able to "understand" and to "do", those are different cognitive processes. People prefer developing cognitive skills they are naturally good at. In reality, once we become better at understanding complex and hard problems (not only problems related to coding), we usually delegate the implementation to someone else. Not trying to dive into the hierarchy structures, and to address the topic aside from the laziness or delegation of responsibility perspective, solving complex problems simply require more (mental) capacity and energy. And building capacity comes from the experience (or streaks as you mention). But comparing our own mental progress to other's, inevitably progresses towards mental burnout or breakdown.

[@Algorithmist]

People can do what they want, but they should recognize what they're trying to improve, and whether what they're doing will provide that.

[@kravadecko5466]

​@@Algorithmist It was a personal rant, because I felt like it. There was zero reasoning behind it, I just like to use reason as an excuse to vent dissatisfaction with KZbin (despite it being free) or browsing internet for sources of truth in general. 😁 On a different note, thank you for posting the videos in the format where you document your own problem solving processes and explaining the intuition behind them, not just chunking and explaining the reverse-engineering process.

[@mehular0ra]

I also missed the point as you initially, that we can covert the one character to other if both of them exist in the string.

[@ahmedtremo]

tuned in to look for a quick answer, exited with deep wisdom about life :D

[@DontAddMe]

😂😂 This one was very immersive and enjoyable

[@leecharlie2513]

Do you have a full time job, Larry?

[@Algorithmist]

nope! just got back from traveling!