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by kubrickslair 3y ago
Thanks for sharing - I was curious too but didn’t delve in myself.
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by kubrickslair 3y ago
It does it pretty well for Python with code interpreter, especially for quant/ ML heavy code.
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by kubrickslair 3y ago
No, we tried escalating the issues on those practices to the exec team, explicitly requesting a change in policies to enhance the quality of our book. The middle managers we were dealing with simply threw in the towel after that. PS: This w
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by kubrickslair 3y ago
My experience with them was less than favorable. We started our book journey with them but had to abandon them because their editorial team & processes were so bad. Their insistence on artificially inflating the book's thickness w
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by kubrickslair 3y ago
Yes, but George Hotz went to CMU after already accomplishing more than many of us might accomplish in our entire careers. So the broader point on pigeonholing still stands. I agree that for the average programmer, the CS degree still helps,
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by kubrickslair 3y ago
I think it’s a little more complex. Reflecting on a decade ago, my then relatively young PhD advisor, along with many colleagues, came from a myriad of backgrounds – applied math being a standout. And some of them ended up doing really rema
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by kubrickslair 3y ago
I think it's worth noting that some of the most celebrated programmers have been self-taught – think Aaron Swartz, John Carmack, George Hotz and so on. Among leading academics also, it's not unusual to find those without formal un
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by kubrickslair 3y ago
Some of the highest salaries I know are in core ML at big tech or some of the foundational labs like Allen AI. While whiteboard coding interviews are often part of the process, it is generally pretty basic LC. The crux of the evaluation oft
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by kubrickslair 4y ago
Yes, some variation of this iterative approach has been around for over 2 decades. Look at Oren Etzioni's early work on Open Information Extraction and so on. I agree that applying this semi supervised approach to extend GPT for improv
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by kubrickslair 7y ago
I am skeptical on the point that a good publishers adds no value. In our case, we authors have been publishing papers for over a decade. And together we have almost 1000 citations for our papers. And yet, we were not able to think over and
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by kubrickslair 7y ago
Please don’t go ahead if it is for Packt. We had a horrible experience with them. After a bunch of hunt we moved to what is called a first tier publisher. And the difference is so massive. We are now restructuring and rewriting all chapters
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by kubrickslair 9y ago
I was in a similar boat as you many years back. Did not get CS at the older IITs, I was too interested in coding and entrepreneurship to be super involved in JEE. I persisted and got an internship at a top CS place in India. Ended up publis
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by kubrickslair 12y ago
Bay Area, temporarily at home in India due to extenuating circumstances. Available for full-time anywhere in 3-4 months. Have a US work visa for a quick transition. Can contract till then. Looking for Data Science/ Machine Learning&#x2
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by kubrickslair 13y ago
I don't disagree with anything you say. As I mentioned earlier that all people who hack such interviews do have basic understanding/skills requisite for the corp, quite enough to play the gymnastics of the interviews. A good interviewer doe
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by kubrickslair 13y ago
>> where I happened to talk to a guy between written test sessions who even had taken very elaborate 'class notes' on clearing these interviews. Pretty sure there would be coaching classes to get into coaching classes with higher hi
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by kubrickslair 13y ago
Agree on all points. Interesting that you brought IIT up. Though I barely cleared IIT JEE and did not attend it for I could not get CS at any of the good schools, I had the feeling that it was becoming more and more hackable with the prolif
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by kubrickslair 13y ago
Though I doubt that, it might be true that being good in algorithmic puzzle-solving (as opposed to real-world algorithmic research/ development) helps employees in their day-to-day work. And I do think they maybe missing some real gems beca
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by kubrickslair 13y ago
Another reason I am not fond of this- it is easily hackable. I know some pretty average people who prepared for months, went through all questions they could find online, ignored their day jobs and cleared the interviews, while some really
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by kubrickslair 13y ago
Never interviewed at Facebook but have been offered roles at similarly hard to get places. Though I am working at my own startup now, the absurdness of the interviewing process at majority of such places confounds me. In short, I can't cope
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by kubrickslair 13y ago
While I agree that this ability may help in certain kinds of development/ coding work, I do think they are various cognitive niches that different people can occupy well. For instance, I think people with functioning ADHD do pretty well as
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by kubrickslair 13y ago
I too went to a top 5 school and took some of the hardest classes in a school which is famous for its hard classes. And yes, it becomes pretty obvious quickly that grades are not a reflection of intelligence. And when the threshold intellig
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by kubrickslair 14y ago
Can't help not quoting Matt Drance. http://www.appleoutsider.com/2011/10/06/sj/ "And so more than ever, I find myself inspired. Steve’s untimely death reminds us we can never give up. He could have given up at any point in the seven years
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by kubrickslair 14y ago
I am a region finalist & happen to know a few ICPC world finalists, and though one of them is very sharp analytically, I am not sure how good a proxy such problems are for a web developer, or even for most technical positions. Some of t
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by kubrickslair 14y ago
There is a book called 'Algorithms for Interviews' by Aziz & Prakash. It is much more CS centric than CareerCup & does not provide explicit solutions to all problems- which is good. It also has more difficult questions, on average,
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by kubrickslair 14y ago
Part of my current work involves designing & implementing pretty intricate & complex algorithms. Earlier I did research & published in a range of ML related sub-fields, primarily NLP & recommender systems. I also read CS pap
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by kubrickslair 14y ago
In my experience, this is PG's most helpful/ reassuring technical essay. Recently I was working on/ creating pretty complex algorithms with gargantuan cobweb of edge cases. Not only did I had to work for 15+ straight hours, but in order to
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by kubrickslair 14y ago
I think this is pretty hard for me to explain, but please try to bear with me. My observations are as anecdotal as anyone else's, but my experience is that there is a moderate negative correlation between someone's raw analytical ability an
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by kubrickslair 14y ago
Agree with the author on how over-specialization is a bigger curse on our profession than most others. But breeding of condescension is a rather petty justification for becoming a more broader human being/ programmer. Many bigger gains come
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by kubrickslair 14y ago
Besides the excellent suggestions by the parent, I might also look at the awesome work done by Jon Kleinberg for a more theoretical understanding. One may start with his pretty concise Networks book: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
As an ex graduate student in Natural Language Processing/ Machine Learning, I was curious what recent changes occurred that made you see things from a different perspective? I have not been keeping track of newer research, so would love to

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