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I Just Finished a Company’s Coding Challenge, and Here’s What I Learned(codementor.io)
2 points by S4M 9y ago|0 comments
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by S4M 9y ago
I remember in first year of University (Math/Physics) someone saying that arctan(x+y) = (arctan(x) + arctan(y))/(1-arctan(x)arctan(y)). (Basically he thought that the expansion of arctan(x+y) was just like the expansion of tan(x+y
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by S4M 9y ago
A simpler example: $ lax -c 'x ** 2' \sqrt[2]{x} While the output should be: x^2. If you wanted to use sqrt, it would have to be: \sqrt[\frac{1}{2}]{x}
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by S4M 9y ago
Not interested for geographical reasons, but I like that your research engineers are not called by the generic "Data Scientists".
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by S4M 9y ago
http://mathforum.org/
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by S4M 9y ago
Actually, the CTO should have mailed the dev team saying: Hi, Yesterday, I thought I was on my local machine and clear the database, while I was in fact on the production server. Luckily knodi123 caught it and killed the dele
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by S4M 9y ago
In Python, I'd love to add something like const in a function definition, for the arguments, to say that the arguments will not be modified by the function. For example, I would want the following code to somehow return an error
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by S4M 9y ago
Maybe they are playing Fischer Random...
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by S4M 9y ago
There is one picture [0] where the board isn't set properly (the square at the the bottom right corner is black instead of white), so I suppose they some of them are not too strong. [0] http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/wwfeature
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by S4M 9y ago
34% is way too much for a fascist like Le Pen.
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by S4M 10y ago
How about the things we would have left in extreme environments: Internet cables at the bottom of the sea, rubbish (or dead people with clothes) high in the mountains, or remnants of polar expeditions in the South pole?
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by S4M 10y ago
Well, not forced out of the country, but Muslims visa holders were denied entry in the US on their way back from holidays: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trum... https://p
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by S4M 10y ago
> We don't do BrExit here forcing (legal) residents out. How about the Muslims?
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by S4M 10y ago
I just tried halp, it seems pretty cool, thank you for making it available!
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by S4M 10y ago
> How are these point systems made? I'm currently in the process of building my own chess AI (in python), and I'm using as a score a weighted combination of the material and of the number of squares controlled by each side. I a
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by S4M 10y ago
It is clearly stated in the article that Thomas Royen just wanted to get published quickly, as he isn't an academic.
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by S4M 10y ago
relevant: https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160329-why-alphago-is-reall...
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Could you have been a codebreaker at Bletchley Park?(telegraph.co.uk)
1 points by S4M 10y ago|0 comments
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by S4M 10y ago
Out of topic but... > This group includes Olivia Alfano, a 29-year-old single mother living in Evansville, Indiana, where she works as a waitress at Red Lobster. The money is pretty good, she told me: She drives a BMW and was able to buy
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by S4M 10y ago
One trick that helped me to master the numbers in a foreign languages was to mentally make additions in that language. For example, in Japanese, I would ask myself "How much is Ni plus Go ?" At first I would mentally do "w
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by S4M 10y ago
I think it was a sailboat. He told me it was relatively cheap (10-20k euros) but maintaining it was costly.
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by S4M 10y ago
I had a colleague at a previous job who was living in a boat. He once told me tnat the costs to rent a place in the harbour, to maintain the boat and the utilities were about 400 euros/month, which is about the rent he'd pay for a
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by S4M 10y ago
You are perfectly right, and no, I haven't deployed anythong at the scale of Google. On the other hand, deployments at that scale are routinely done at Google, Facebook and Amazon amongst other tech giants, so an intern doing it should
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by S4M 10y ago
> 1.5 petabytes of savings in data usage per day is not HN worthy? Well it is, but the merit should come first to the engineers who implemented the Brotli algorithm. What Anamaria did was just to include the code for that algorithm in th
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by S4M 10y ago
> but all of our family is on the east coast or in Germany So I take either you or your wife is German. If your child doesn't spend enough time with the German parent, he or she will not know the German language, so please be carefu
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by S4M 10y ago
Oh you are the guy/one of the guys who made repl.it! I saw it on HN couple of years ago, it's an awesome product, congrats! I hope you succeed with it.
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by S4M 10y ago
I suppose that with a loan it would be transparent that the money "gained" would have to be repaid later, while in the case of a sure to lose bet, the price of the derivatives could have been tweaked so it would be apparent only l
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by S4M 10y ago
I have another hypothesis the article didn't mention: students who want to do research focus more on their studies while the ones planning to go to Wall Street do the bare minimum to get an acceptable grade (whatever "acceptable&q
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by S4M 10y ago
"Puisque tu insiste s ..."
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by S4M 10y ago
Honest question: why would you tell your son to create an FB account?

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