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Assuming you are familiar with scientific readings, I'd recommend to read papers on algorithms and data structures on a regular basis. There are tons of it and they normally discuss complexity and shortcomings as well as comparisons to other algorithms. Personally I find it much harder, to understand algorithms, other people wrote, than coming up with my own algorithms. I like to print such papers (normally 4-12 pages) and carry them with me (only one at a time), wherever I go, so I can read a few lines, whenever I have to wait somewhere.



Care to post a few examples?


Some of my readings, but I definitely recommend to find some which are matching with your own interests better:

M-Tree: http://www.vldb.org/conf/1997/P426.PDF

Periphrase Extraction: http://asv.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/publication/file/91/hol...

Semantic Matching: http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/OK/Publications/Algorithms%20and%...




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