Ah I have "fond" memories about once spending a good week debugging this, because I was also spawning threads/sub-processes in the loop, making this a Heisenbug that caused the program to crash every hour or so...
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Not to mention Pebble's "low-tech" screen was so clearly visible in direct sunlight, while I have problem clearly seeing the fancier screen of Fitbit when it's slightly bright outside.
Both interviewees and interviewers seemed to like these questions. I do hope this approach gets more adoption in the industry. It takes more time to prepare, but the high-quality signals it provides are worth the effort imo. Such questions are also harder to leak compared to typical whiteboard coding questions and thus more reusable too.
Looks fairly straightforward to implement. Until this is more widely available "officially", I'll probably just hack up some Chrome extension for personal use and try it out.
> Adding fuel to the mistrust, though, is the role of the EcoHealth Alliance’s Daszak. His close ties with Shi’s lab and his role as a member of the WHO mission’s international team are potentially in conflict. Critics say he can also be less than forthcoming. ...
And in his defense:
> But scientists like the University of Utah’s Goldstein, who do not collaborate with Daszak, told me that there is no evidence that Daszak “wielded disproportionate influence” in the 11-member team.
> Daszak told me in an email that his potential conflicts of interest had been declared to the WHO before he joined the mission team. ...
Maybe one mitigation is to make public figure / media accountable to the avoidable damage their speech end up causing? E.g., if I listen to your anti-vax radio program and consequently decide not to get vaccinated, before catching the disease and dying, then my family can sue you for damage as long as it can established that you have purposefully misled / failed to assess the potential harm.
After a few class-action lawsuits like this, public figure & media will probably be more careful when they want to spread misinformation.
A counter data point: I recently passed Google's interview a few months ago. In one round, I was asked to solve a certain kind of bipartite graph matching problem; not being a fresh new grad with ACM medals, I obviously couldn't solve it in polynomial time and just implemented a brute-force solution in the end. In another round, I came up with a solution the interviewer said they've never seen before, although it could be slightly slower than the "optimal" solution he had in mind depending on the input size.
As an interviewer in my last company, I always made sure the solutions were well motivated, and have rejected candidates who could write down the perfect solution but couldn't explain why. If I were to be asked by the candidate for the specific runtime I was looking for, I would probably just reply with "don't worry about it, just try your best" or "let's focus on correctness first and worry about efficiency and other trade-offs later".
Testing for problem solving ability is hard, but that's still one of the key signals we wish to extract whenever possible.
Well, consider how many people in China have learned English, can read articles / online discussions in English, or have traveled to the west. Contrast that to the number of westerners who can read Chinese or have been to China.
China surely understands the west a lot better than the other way around. It just disagrees and has its own interests to look after.
Yep that's my understanding. Or if enough time has passed since vaccination to convince them that the vaccines are safe.
I was very surprised to learn that they were unwilling to get vaccinated. They are actually very worried about infection, and have been very careful with wearing masks, disinfecting things, and avoiding in-person contacts whenever possible. They explained that they were mostly worried about the unknown long-term side-effects of the vaccines. Maybe having a PhD degree is correlated with having this kind of caution.
- Write in Markdown using your favorite editor (I like Typora[1]; StackEdit[2] is also great)
- Render them in-browser with Docsify[3] (so that you don't even need to worry about setting up a separate build step)
- Deploy to GitHub pages or GitLab pages for free
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Me and my friends who also work in this field are generally excited about ML/AI getting more recognition from the CS community at large btw.