Editorial: LC premium set 4

Eval a polynomical A(x) at x0 : Horner’s rule
Mutlply two polys:
- Closed form at O(n^2) naively -> O(nlogn) possible
- Equivalent to convolution of vectors A * reverse(B) - inner products of all possible shifts
Poly representations:
- Samples for n points with all distince xs.
  - Convert between this and coefficient form in O(nlogn)
  - Sampling n points takes O(n^2) in total
- A sequence of n roots
Eval A(x) for x in X: D&C by even/odd i
- A(x) = A_even(x^2) + x * A_odd(x^2)
- Derive the recursion and cost => draw the recursion tree and we see it is still n^2
- Square a number on the unit circle on the complex plane
FFT is the d&c algo for DFT (coefficent to sample form)
- Fast poly multiplicatin: FFT(A) * FFA(B) and then do inverse FFT
Similar techique

Editorial: Coding set 18

2020-10-25 00:00:00 +0000

Good for whiteboarding

Check If Word Is Valid After Substitutions

First attempt TLE

Mini Parser

Corner cases

Stamping The Sequence

My optimization was wrong

Largest Merge Of Two Strings

My optimization was wrong

Remove Zero Sum Consecutive Nodes from Linked List

Editorial: Coding set 17

2020-10-11 00:00:00 +0000

Good for whiteboarding

Shopping Offers

First attempt TLE

Maximum Number of Events That Can Be Attended

My gut feeling was wrong

Shortest Unsorted Continuous Subarray

First attempt WA

Path with Maximum Probability

First attempt TLE

Editorial: Coding set 16

2020-09-28 00:00:00 +0000

Good for whiteboarding

Can I Win

My algo was wrong

Most Stones Removed with Same Row or Column

How to prove it works?

[Number of Closed Islands] (https://leetcode.com/submissions/detail/403350247/)

My optimization was wrong

Editorial: Coding set 15

2020-09-19 00:00:00 +0000

Good for whiteboarding

Minimum Area Rectangle

First attempt got TLE
Multiple solutions

Last Stone Weight II

My gut feeling was wrong

1124. Longest Well-Performing Interval

My algo was wrong

Editorial: Coding set 14

2020-09-03 00:00:00 +0000

Good for whiteboarding

Champagne Tower

My first attempt was wrong

Number of Subarrays with Bounded Maximum

Corner case

988. Smallest String Starting From Leaf

My optimization was wrong

Additive Number

First attempt missed a corner case

Super Pow

My gut feeling was wrong

Longest Word in Dictionary through Deleting

Official insight is cleaner than mine
First attempt missed a corner case

Editorial: Coding set 13

2020-08-22 00:00:00 +0000

Good for whiteboarding

Iterator for Combination

My optimization was incorrect

Editorial: Coding set 12

2020-08-17 00:00:00 +0000

Good for whiteboarding

The Maze III

My optimization was wrong

Coin Path

My optimization was wrong

Minimum Number of Days to Eat N Oranges

Took me too long

Maximum Number of Non-Overlapping Substrings

My optimization was wrong

Editorial: Coding set 11

2020-08-14 00:00:00 +0000

Good for whiteboarding

Student Attendance Record II

Official insight cleaner than mine

Rectangle Area II

Took me too long to figure out the decomposition

Trapping Rain Water II

Unable to come up with the insight myself

Russian Doll Envelopes

My algo was incorrect

Editorial: Coding set 10

2020-08-02 00:00:00 +0000

Good for whiteboarding

Increasing Subsequences

Minimum Moves to Equal Array Elements II

Whiteboard version has bug

Editorial: Coding set 9

2020-07-27 00:00:00 +0000

Good for whiteboarding

Find the Kth Smallest Sum of a Matrix With Sorted Rows

My gut feeling was wrong

String Compression II

My algo was wrong

Find the Closest Palindrome

Corner cases

Minimum Cost to Make at Least One Valid Path in a Grid

Failed to see the insight

1096. Brace Expansion II

Compare and contrast with Parsing A Boolean Expression

Minimum Number of Increments on Subarrays to Form a Target Array

Took me too long

642. Design Search Autocomplete System

2 WAs

Numbers With Repeated Digits

Took me too long

Editorial: Coding set 8

2020-07-20 00:00:00 +0000

Maximum Length of Pair Chain

How to prove we can do greedy

Circular Array Loop

My gut feeling was wrong

Making File Names Unique

My optimization was wrong

Monotone Increasing Digits

Multiple solutions

Binary Subarrays With Sum

Multiple solutions

Matchsticks to Square

A lot trickier than it appears!

Editorial: Coding set 7

2020-07-16 00:00:00 +0000

Good for whiteboarding

952. Largest Component Size by Common Factor

First attempt missed 1 corner case
Python is too slow for this problem

902. Numbers At Most N Given Digit Set

First attempt missed 1 corner case
Multiple solutions

Ways to Split Array Into Three Subarrays

2 WAs

Replace the Substring for Balanced String

First attempt WA

Maximum Profit in Job Scheduling

Took me too long

Editorial: Coding set 6

2020-07-11 00:00:00 +0000

Good for whiteboarding

RLE Iterator

The official solution is cleaner than mine

On Uber's Cadence

2020-07-07 00:00:00 +0000

Checked 10+ workflow engines. Here are my conclusions:

It is not designed for high traffic (> 100 per sec) + short lived task case (< 10 sec). At most one requirement can be satisfied
However, WE should support many executing tasks, e.g., 100k tasks managed by the workflow engine
Evolution lineage

AWS Simple Workflow -> Uber Cadence -> Temporal
		    -> AWS Step Function

Concepts

Workflow: similiar to the coordinator in saga. Its code is hosted on the workflow worker, which is your process
- The communication between workflow worker and cadence service is encapsulated in a decision task (also called workflow task), e.g., when an external event happens to the workflow, a decision task will be created and dispatched to WW
Activity: similar to the sub txn component in saga. Its code is hosted on the activity worker, which is your process and often the same process as the workflow worker
- The communciation between activity worker and cadence service is encapsulated in the activity task, e.g., WW sends a ScheduleActivityTask to cadence, which will dispatch a corresponding activity task to the AW
Execution history: persistent log to support exactly-once, all-or-nothing semantics. All task data will be persisted too to support replay during recovery

Architecture

Front end: API gateway
Matching service: task scheduling, dispatching, and task list
- backed by task storage
History service: workflow state, timer q, and transfer q
- backed by event, workflow, visibility storage