The one time I crammed for an interview, it worked, but it was an unusual case. The job was to work with Peter Norvig at the search startup where he was chief s

The one time I crammed for an interview, it worked, but it was an unusual case. The job was to work with Peter Norvig at the search startup where he was chief scientist, back in the 90s. So the day before, I took his book AI: A Modern Approach and reread the chapters on natural language. An upcoming interview concentrates the mind, and I noticed several mistakes, including a bug in the pseudocode. (They did offer the job, but for not enough money after I naively answered the salary history question. Oops.)