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But I need to get a job at one of the big tech companies, and so I need to show them I can do deep learning.

NTDF9 10y ago
Doesn't matter! You'll still be asked to write perfect code, with awesome variable names, on a whiteboard, with eyes closed. Don't forget to do handstands to stand out from the crowd.
- narrator 10y ago
  Don't forget to practice doing math like 36^5 in your head. No pencil or paper allowed!
  - draugadrotten 10y ago
    If you would need to practice that, the job is not for you.
  - logfromblammo 10y ago
    Well, let's see, 36 is 00100100 in binary. Binomial coefficients are 1 5 10 10 5 1. 2^25 + 5 * 2^22 + 10 * 2^19 + 10 * 2^16 + 5 * 2^13 + 2^10. 10 is 5 * 2, so bit shift those middle two. 5 is binary 0101, so add copies bit shifted by 2. 2^25 + 2^24 + 2^22 + 2^22 + 2^20 + 2^19 + 2^17 + 2^15 + 2^13 + 2^10. Comes out to 0011 1001 1010 1010 0100 0000 0000 0x039AA400 Which is a perfectly cromulent numeric response. If the interviewer asks what that is in decimal, they ought to be glad I don't have a pencil, because it would end up in someone's eye on my way out the door.
    - tropo 10y ago
      Me as interviewer: have you heard of the XOR operator?
      - logfromblammo 10y ago
        Yeah, it looks like a plus sign with a circle around it. It's not in the ASCII character set. Sometimes, programming languages will use the caret character to represent XOR for boolean types and bitwise XOR for integral types, perhaps using two asterisks for exponentiation, or leaving it as a named function call, like Math.Exp or Math.Pow. But you have to be careful there, because sometimes Math.Exp is actually the inverse of the natural log function, rather than exponentiation. If caret means XOR, then 36 ^ 5 is 0010 0001, or 33. And that is the point where the interviewer marks me as "do not hire", because they can't stand it when they can't show off how smart they are to the candidate.

NTDF9 10y ago

Doesn't matter! You'll still be asked to write perfect code, with awesome variable names, on a whiteboard, with eyes closed. Don't forget to do handstands to stand out from the crowd.

narrator 10y ago
Don't forget to practice doing math like 36^5 in your head. No pencil or paper allowed!
- draugadrotten 10y ago
  If you would need to practice that, the job is not for you.
- logfromblammo 10y ago
  Well, let's see, 36 is 00100100 in binary. Binomial coefficients are 1 5 10 10 5 1. 2^25 + 5 * 2^22 + 10 * 2^19 + 10 * 2^16 + 5 * 2^13 + 2^10. 10 is 5 * 2, so bit shift those middle two. 5 is binary 0101, so add copies bit shifted by 2. 2^25 + 2^24 + 2^22 + 2^22 + 2^20 + 2^19 + 2^17 + 2^15 + 2^13 + 2^10. Comes out to 0011 1001 1010 1010 0100 0000 0000 0x039AA400 Which is a perfectly cromulent numeric response. If the interviewer asks what that is in decimal, they ought to be glad I don't have a pencil, because it would end up in someone's eye on my way out the door.
  - tropo 10y ago
    Me as interviewer: have you heard of the XOR operator?
    - logfromblammo 10y ago
      Yeah, it looks like a plus sign with a circle around it. It's not in the ASCII character set. Sometimes, programming languages will use the caret character to represent XOR for boolean types and bitwise XOR for integral types, perhaps using two asterisks for exponentiation, or leaving it as a named function call, like Math.Exp or Math.Pow. But you have to be careful there, because sometimes Math.Exp is actually the inverse of the natural log function, rather than exponentiation. If caret means XOR, then 36 ^ 5 is 0010 0001, or 33. And that is the point where the interviewer marks me as "do not hire", because they can't stand it when they can't show off how smart they are to the candidate.