The Priority Queue: My Jedi Training with Heaps

The Quest Begins (The “Why”) Honestly, I used to dread interview questions that asked for “the top K frequent elements” or “merge K sorted lists.” I’d reach for a naive solution—sort the whole array, or shove everything into a list and repeatedly scan for the minimum. The code worked, but it felt li…

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