Contributing to open-source made me realize how important core subjects of CS really are.
-Operating Systems explains why async code, threads, locks, processes, tracing, and schedulers behave the way they do.
-Probability & Statistics becomes essential for ML, analytics, ranking systems, and even A/B testing.
And the best part is that classroom theory feels less theoretical. You start recognizing classroom concepts inside actual production code.
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