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This reminds me of Jewish Problems[0], designed to "prevent Jews and other undesirables from getting a passing grade" at the entrance exams to the math departme
by spython 8y ago
This reminds me of Jewish Problems[0], designed to "prevent Jews and other undesirables from getting a passing grade" at the entrance exams to the math department of Moscow State University.
[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1556 https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1556
- golergka 8y agoWow, I never knew they actually published a paper on it. Coming from a Moscow math school that traditionally had a lot of jewish students, most of whom went on to MSU to study math, I remember studying these exact problems - although in my time, this filter was supposed to long been gone.
- hogwild 8y agoFor a second there I thought you were talking about the interview process for becoming a Jew when they weed out undesirables.
- markatkinson 8y agoThis was discussed in Edward Frenkels book Love and Math
- taurath 8y agoAs a self-taught programmer that has had to go back to get "cs fundamentals", half of interview questions feel like that - if you just know about x or y data structure for this particular edge case, everything becomes simple/easy.