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how would you do it if your logs were printed on paper with a printer, each line printed with stochastic timing (due to a bug), with an ink containing a chemica
by winwang 1y ago
how would you do it if your logs were printed on paper with a printer, each line printed with stochastic timing (due to a bug), with an ink containing a chemical tracer with halflife `h` (after being put to paper), but the ink is randomly sampled from several (`m`) inks of different halflives `h1`, h2`,... `hn`?
assume `p` different printers scattered across the 10 most populous US cities.
you may use standard unix utilities.
- yjftsjthsd-h 1y agoHave interns shovel it all into scanners, run the result through tesseract, then do the thing I said before. Nonetheless, I don't think your question is sincere; what point are you actually trying to get at?
- winwang 1y agoSorry, I was just trying to make a joke (about both insane systems and interview questions) since the question you answered was a bit unclear. Guess it didn't land, haha.
- yjftsjthsd-h 1y agoAh, that makes much more sense. It read as somewhat aggressive in a way that I couldn't quite make sense of; my best guess was that you were insinuating that the unix tools I was reaching for were arcane and unwieldy. Thanks for clarifying.