Darbar 299 — Last Stone Weight
Easy
Darbar · Heap
Catalog slot 299 of 548 (source id 742). Topic heap / sorting.
Solve on LeetCode: Last Stone Weight. Do not treat this page as a statement dump.
Aligned T2T band: weeks 31–45. Start at Week 31. Full map: Darbar hub.
Pattern block: Data-structure mastery (weeks 46-60, slots 281-360). Warmup: Standard-library structure drills. Exam: Structure-selection exam with 2-3 advanced problems.
Triangulation — Heap: Darbar speed is Top-K and scheduler problems; Forge depth is Heap invariants and adversarial streams; production artifact is Streaming Top-K / inference batching.
Evidence (cookiecutter problem_299.md)
- Attempt log (approaches that failed)
- Final complexity (time and space)
- One mistake corrected
- Production concept this slot reinforces
Personal dates and the CSV tracker stay in the learner journal.
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