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by perdunov 4109 days ago
Sure, I agree about reduction to known problems, but still, understanding algorithms completely is more powerful than manipulating them as "black boxes", as the former allows to build upon ideas of algorithms and produce variations of algorithms, and generally gives a lot of insights and patterns of algorithmic problem solving. The relation is kind of like below:

(No algo) < (Blackbox algo) < (Whitebox algo)