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by jfasi 8y ago
That wasn’t my intention, and I updated my comment to clarify. Did your interviewer offer suggestions or just sit there?
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by jfasi 8y ago
What memorized algorithm does this test for? As far as I know there is no algorithm to do this, and this interview tests for algorithm design rather than memorization.
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by jfasi 8y ago
I suppose the math checks out, but I disagree with the model: the whole point of doing multiple interviews is to get a variety of opinions based on the knowledge that bombing an interview just happens. You're assuming that bombing one
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by jfasi 8y ago
I also work at Google and what mystifies me when I do interviews is just how consistently people manage to screw up even the medium difficulty questions. I used to love asking this question until it was banned: https://programmin
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by jfasi 8y ago
> A 5% bomb rate for an on-site question will put you into the 60-70% pass rate. I'm not sure I follow the math here, can you expand a little?
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by jfasi 8y ago
Interesting, I've found my opinions align pretty well with who gets hired and who does well, but I'm interested in this research. Will reach out internally.
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by jfasi 8y ago
Here's a few pointers on big data: * You obviously need more than one machine to do computation. Things become more difficult as you go from one machine to many, so learn about parallel programming tactics like MapReduce[1] and Flume[2
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by jfasi 8y ago
I often do, both for fun and to prepare myself to give a question I'd like to use in an interview. The thing about interview questions at Google is there's a very fine line they need to walk: if they're too easy they give n
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by jfasi 8y ago
As someone who works in ads, I'm not sure this is such a bad thing. CTRs and conversion rates in the low single digits can be significant businesses at scale. Search ads, display ads, and mobile phone games all run on minuscule convers
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by jfasi 8y ago
> What of Google managers quoted in media vehemently saying they wouldn't hire people harboring certain political positions? I respond that this is inconsistent with both stated policies and established practice, and such managers c
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by jfasi 8y ago
In my personal estimation as someone who actually has actually read these new rules and is currently working under them, these policy changes represent little substantive change from the previous policy. I won't be quoting the text dir
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by jfasi 8y ago
The problem with these sorts of systems, both those backed by technology and those backed by old-fashioned prejudice, is that it exerts an upward force on those who are already on top while simultaneously pushing downwards on those who are
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by jfasi 8y ago
This paints Facebook’s recent marketing campaign in a new light. Here I was thinking we were dealing with a company finally that decided to get their act together and turn themselves around, when in reality it was actually just Facebook try
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by jfasi 8y ago
> Police facial recognition cameras have been trialled at events such as football matches, festivals and parades... High-definition cameras detect all the faces in a crowd and compare them with existing police photographs, such as mugsho
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by jfasi 8y ago
I wonder how this drop in demand is distributed between American students who are eligible for financial aid and federally-backed student loans and foreign students who almost always pay full price. As an anecdote from my own engineering sc
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by jfasi 8y ago
Note that they're banning bail bond ads , not links. This means if you search for "bail bonds" you'll see organic links but no ads. This is a crucial difference that this post seems to overlook. The search algorithm g
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by jfasi 8y ago
I'm glad this study is happening and I'm excited to see the outcome, but I feel like I ought to caution people who are expecting this to add this to their arsenal of pro- or anti- UBI arguments in western countries against compari
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by jfasi 8y ago
Just to clarify, are they developing a universal trust ranking for all users or developing a per-user ranking of what sources that user trusts most? The first option is awesome because it'll hide propaganda outlets that are universally
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by jfasi 8y ago
I can contribute a few factors I've observed working at my Large Company of Choice (starts with a G). Personally, I believe that, in the ways that matter, engineers at larger companies are more efficient than their friends at smaller
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by jfasi 8y ago
> Is it better to criticize the math that discovered that fact, or the root cause that made it true to begin with? The only place where math was involved was the guts of the training stage of the model. A crucial stage to be sure, but on
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by jfasi 8y ago
I really have nothing to comment except how excellent I found your writeup. Seriously, wow.
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by jfasi 8y ago
It's hard to be believe these days, but once upon a time language models were written by hand. Imagine you hand-wrote such a model and put it to use in (for the sake of example) a psychological evaluation application. Now imagine that
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by jfasi 8y ago
For a real world version of your "Bob" example, many people have negative associations with the names "Jamal" and "Mohammed". Do you think we should train AI to systematically ignore those sentiments?
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by jfasi 9y ago
How do we interpret this heartless-sounding statement? In the absence of original source material, whatever interpretation you apply will inevitably be a projection of your pre-existing views on the matter. If you want to knee-jerk your wa
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by jfasi 9y ago
I get suspicious whenever I read about companies piling on to technology trends, not least because of the damage it does to the rank and file developers who work on it. The short version is: leaders got bamboozled and their subordinates suf
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by jfasi 9y ago
> users I'm pretty sure this is aimed at enterprise applications.
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by jfasi 9y ago
@jvanegue: > there is a CISO position to fill at @facebook I hear @lcamtuf: > Waiting for NYTimes to tell me why I am leaving Google first. This little exchange speaks volumes about what's happening in the the media regarding the
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by jfasi 9y ago
> companies could create 2 resellers across europe, split the revenue and avoid the tax That's exactly the point of taxing revenue: under a profit-based taxation scheme you'd end up with a net profit of zero. Revenue taxation s
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by jfasi 9y ago
You comment doesn't make sense to me. Face it: some form of taxation was going to appear no matter what. It's inevitable. You don't just roll into a country, make billions of dollars, and expect to pay no tax in perpetuity. A
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by jfasi 9y ago
Personally, I like this proposal. I like that it's simple: any overly complex system will almost inevitably result in distortion and loopholes. A few points of my favorite points: * It's done on revenues and not profits. This avoi

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