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As a self taught engineer who works in the industry as an SRE/Devops/Infra engineer, haven’t taken a course in Algo/DS. I’m planning to build the foundations by developing intuition to problem solving and understanding the building blocks before I go deep into ML/AI stuff later.

The focus is not really interview problem like leetcode but more to develop foundational understanding/intuition for algorithms and DS. Please do recommend if you have any suggestions on practical way to learn algorithms and data structure, time complexity and in the progress get better at applying the right algorithm or data structure for a problem. Any advice is appreciated.

I’ve ~5TB size of logs. I’m open to ideas on doing a log analysis using any of the AI models available to play around for learning purposes. I’m on a budget for this but have time to work on something DIY. Kindly suggest any ideas for anomaly detection or similar to play around with these logs. Thanks.

I haven’t been keeping up with AI stuff except for trying out chat clients like ChatGPT and others. I’m a software engineer working in infra systems. I would like to pick up now that things in AI have gotten real. What would be the right path to learn AI/ML stuff? I’m someone who prefers ground up learning from fundamentals and building something using that knowledge. Any recommendations would be appreciated. Thanks.