wayn3

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   by wayn3 10y ago

   "I'm genuinely interested in alternative methods of assessing people's ability to write high-quality code." Step 1: Specify what high quality code IS. Step 2: Ask them to write high quality code. Step 3: ??? Step 4: Prof
2. 482.▲
   by wayn3 10y ago

   Different things. Deep Learning is a Machine Learning "thing". AI is AI. In "AI", "motivation" is hidden. If you give a computer just the ability to play Go, but do not make it do it, it would just sit there fo
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   by wayn3 10y ago

   i remember a time when you didnt need an app to borrow something from your neighbor. you just asked. not saying Curtsy is not a good product. Just an observation
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   by wayn3 10y ago

   Well, since you seem to know who I am, you probably know which challenge I was given. Do you really think its not an OO problem? Otherwise, you can probably have some of your other engineers review these tests if you are too busy to do it y
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   by wayn3 10y ago

   From the document I received: BaseCase Programming Test You have 9 hours to implement the following game. In order of importance, we are interested in: 1. The full, bug-free implementation of the spec 2. The elegance of the code 3. The time
6. 486.▲
   by wayn3 10y ago

   One of the reasons for insurance is that most people do not have the funds to immediately take care of the costs that accidents cause. If someone crashes into your car, you usually call your own insurance and they pay for your expenses so y
7. 487.▲
   by wayn3 10y ago

   If your car gets hit in the side and you knock yourself out on the back of a seat, figuring out you've got a concussion doesn't require expert problem solving skills.
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   by wayn3 10y ago

   There is no such thing as an IT guy. The district contracted the work out to a company. My mother talked to them, they told her what needs to be done and wrote a proposal to the district administration. Those guys rejected it on the basis o
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   by wayn3 10y ago

   Thanks for the response. This was not meant to be found by anyone though. Just to show it to HN.
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    by wayn3 10y ago

    Thanks for the response: - This is not meant to be found by potential employers. I just chose the form to show it off here because it seemed to be the easiest way to me. The content is what matters. Additionally, I'd rather not work on
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    by wayn3 10y ago

    Tensorflow has a whole bunch of tutorials, but those are the "Hello World"s of tensorflow, not of neural networks. In order to get started with neural networks, begin with drawing simple neural nets for basic operations like addit
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    by wayn3 10y ago

    Because that would be the equivalent of telling someone to write "Hello World" on a piece of paper in order to show them how programming works. A single layer isn't a "neural network". The difference between logisti
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    by wayn3 10y ago

    Being owned by the government by default sounds reasonable.
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    Ask HN: Lots of non-traditional work exp – Pimp my CV?

    5 points by wayn3 10y ago|6 comments
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    by wayn3 10y ago

    My mother is an elementary school teacher. She recently bought a set of ipads to use in the classroom. She cant get them to work because the internet at the place is set up improperly and they wont let me fix it for her either. Schools suff
16. 496.▲
    by wayn3 10y ago

    PgElevator should be the name of a chatbot that gives personalized Paul Graham-esque advice in exchange for your elevator pitch.
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    by wayn3 10y ago

    * Projects - Ray tracer - Parser/Interpreter - Compiler - Virtual Machine - Small kernel - Neural Network - Web server Among these, do the ray tracer and neural network seem way easier than the competition to me due to my math backgrou
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    by wayn3 10y ago

    That's the first test. I'm talking about the next one. Wait for it ;)
19. 499.▲
    by wayn3 10y ago

    I hope you see how calling someone naive without understanding their motive could be interpreted as mildly offensive :P
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    by wayn3 10y ago

    Was up to 9 hours and took more like 4. Had some spare time so I knocked it out. I don't mind these things, but when you make someone invest hours, you should feel responsible for investing a couple minutes. Was one of these "do s
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    by wayn3 10y ago

    When you make someone do a 9 hour coding test and they solve it, you could at least take the 5 minutes it takes to write them a rejection E-mail :(
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    by wayn3 10y ago

    Are these jobs remote?
23. 503.▲
    by wayn3 10y ago

    What about Europeans who work american timezones?
24. 504.▲
    by wayn3 11y ago

    You have to get a bit more creative here. I'm having success with cold e-mailing early founders who are not looking for data scientists then tell them what data science can do for them. Or apply to their "full stack web developer
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    by wayn3 11y ago

    I don't see how a lot of things are acceptable. This is law. I choose not to have an opinion on it.
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    by wayn3 11y ago

    You can insult political leaders. You can NOT insult FOREIGN political leaders.
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    by wayn3 11y ago

    should rename to PR as a service. Same product, bigger market :P
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    by wayn3 11y ago

    This has to be a joke.
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    by wayn3 11y ago

    "why not make the cheaper car a bit less cool looking so that the rich assholes get to be rich assholes" "consumers who don't have the cash to own a cool car should not get a cool car"
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    by wayn3 11y ago

    Location: Heidelberg, Germany Remote: strongly preferred Willing to relocate: only to Vienna, Austria Technologies: C++, Python, Javascript, Flask, Meteor.js, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, pythonRQ, etc. Résumé/CV: http:&#x2