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One aspect of this is that apparently most people can't draw a bicycle much better than this: they get the elements of the frame wrong, mess up the geometry, et
by gcanyon 9mo ago
One aspect of this is that apparently most people can't draw a bicycle much better than this: they get the elements of the frame wrong, mess up the geometry, etc.
- gnatolf 9mo agoAbsolutely. A technically correct bike is very hard to draw in SVG without going overboard in details
- falloutx 9mo agoIts not. There are thousands of examples on the internet but good SVG sites do have monetary blocks. https://www.freepik.com/free-photos-vectors/bicycle-svg https://www.freepik.com/free-photos-vectors/bicycle-svg
- jefftk 9mo agoSeveral of those have incorrect frames: https://www.freepik.com/free-vector/cyclist_23714264.htm https://www.freepik.com/free-vector/cyclist_23714264.htm https://www.freepik.com/premium-vector/bicycle-icon-black-line-bike-two-wheel-vehicle_24065169.htm https://www.freepik.com/premium-vector/bicycle-icon-black-li... Or missing/broken pedals: https://www.freepik.com/premium-vector/bicycle-silhouette-icon-white-background_390337074.htm https://www.freepik.com/premium-vector/bicycle-silhouette-ic... https://www.freepik.com/premium-vector/bicycle-silhouette-vector-illustration_396261558.htm https://www.freepik.com/premium-vector/bicycle-silhouette-ve... http://freepik.com/premium-vector/bicycle-silhouette-vector-illustration_396261558.htm http://freepik.com/premium-vector/bicycle-silhouette-vector-...
- gnatolf 9mo agoFrom smaller to larger nitpick, there's basically something wrong with all of the first 15 or so of these drawings. Thanks for agreeing :)
- RussianCow 9mo agoI'm not positive I could draw a technically correct bike with pen and paper (without a reference), let alone with SVG!
- cyanydeez 9mo agoYes, but obviously AGI will solve this by, _checks notes_ more TerraWatts!
- seanhunter 9mo ago…in space!
- hackernudes 9mo agoThe word is terawatts unless you mean earth-based watts. OK then, it's confirmed, data centers in space!
- arionmiles 9mo agoThere's a research paper from the University of Liverpool, published in 2006 where researchers asked people to draw bicycles from memory and how people overestimate their understanding of basic things. It was a very fun and short read. It's called "The science of cycology: Failures to understand how everyday objects work" by Rebecca Lawson. https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758/bf03195929.pdf https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758/bf03195929.pdf
- rcxdude 9mo agoA place I worked at used it as part of an interview question (it wasn't some pass/fail thing to get it 100% correct, and was partly a jumping off point to a different question). This was in a city where nearly everyone uses bicycles as everyday transportation. It was surprising how many supposedly mechanical-focused people who rode a bike everyday, even rode a bike to the interview, would draw a bike that would not work.
- throwuxiytayq 9mo agoThis is why at my company in interviews we ask people to draw a CPU diagram. You'd be surprised how many supposedly-senior computer programmers would draw a processor that would not work.
- niobe 9mo agoIf I was asked that question in an interview to be a programmer I'd walk out. How many abstraction layers either side of your knowledge domain do you need to be an expert in? Further, being a good technologist of any kind is not about having arcane details at the tip of your frontal lobe, and a company worth working for would know that.
- duped 9mo agoI mean gp is clearly a joke but A fundamental part of the job is being able to break down problems from large to small, reason about them, and talk about how you do it, usually with minimal context or without deep knowledge in all aspects of what we do. We're abstraction artists. That question wouldn't be fundamentally different than any other architecture question. Start by drawing big, hone in on smaller parts, think about edge cases, use existing knowledge. Like bread and butter stuff. I much more question your reaction to the joke than using it as a hypothetical interview question. I actually think it's good. And if it filters out people that have that kind of reaction then it's excellent. No one wants to work with the incurious.
- nateglims 9mo agoI just had an idea for an RLVR startup.