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Barack Obama – Computer Science Question
Filed Under (News) by admin on 20-11-2009
Tagged Under : Ceo Eric Schmidt, Computer Science, Eric Schmidt, Google, Science Question
weedipikia asked:
Barack Obama gets asked a computer science question by Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
I’m from England, so things are a little different here. I’m at university, Major is Maths, I also do modules in Statistics.
Maths? You in college? Whats your major?
No it’s simple… I am studying Maths.
Quick Sort would be the correct answer
he doesn’t and saying the bubble sort is “simple” is just being stupid its complex to everyone that is common. I am studying Computer Science
Be certain he had all these questions in advance. The way he answers this you can see he’s looking to the side acknowledging someone and smiling, this was meant to be a joke and people are talking this like he’s a computer wiz as well. That’s amusing.
In times past I’m sure Obama would have been described as being 10ft tall and as strong as 50 men
So he was steadfast against the Iraq war. Too bad he didn’t tell everyone he was fine with an Iranian war, or maybe he did, but no one cared.
death to bubble sort!
wow, I cant believe Obama would know this kind of thing. Even I didn’t no. That makes me feel so sad. =(
LOL even the president knows bubble sort is crap.
His thinking-time and answer indicates it’s real knowledge: it’s believable that an intelligent non-CS would have heard of Bubble Sort and at some point been informed it was slow/old/obsolete/naive/etc.. That your President (he’s not mine) remembered that and had the guts to have a go is something to admire. If he’d answered “The Radix Sort”, you could safely assume set-up.
Thats hillarious!!! Love how he knows about sorting algorithms.
Thanks (=
if you love theory and programming and can work under pressure go for it.
anyways .. am not sure either.. Google can beat anything..
I was just thinking maybe “divide-and-conquer” fastest
T(n) ? 2 T(n/2) + c n
0:51 yeah! way to go!!
I was really clapping hard on his answer! just an impressive answer for a president who’s his head is in political view!
and man! he knows what Bubble Sort can do!!
great job Mr. President!
I’m thinking Merge Sorting actually.
no dude, thats pretty basic, and everybody that knows PASCAL, remember the buble sort
I’m really interested in computer science, if anybody could give me an insight, that would be helpful. Thanks (=
the max and min complexity of the algorith says what is the “best solution”, and that is not dependant on the ways the numbers are arranged.
wtf? Is he one of those people that remembers everything they’ve seen or heard? Most lawyers wouldn’t even have seen or heard of Bubble Sort in their lives.
Anyways, isn’t this a trick question? Doesn’t it depend on how the integers are sorted to start out with? I haven’t taken that class yet
he did go to harvard
yeah, run a government.
Or maybe they told him to say that. DuH.
Radix sort!
um…i think leading a country is one.