You're supposed to act like you're figuring it out in real time during the interview. They're "seeing how you think". When really you're just trying to recall.
Learning what? In most cases you will be strictly forbidden to use basic algorithms in your job. No one allows you to write quick sort or hash-table or crypto from scratch.
Their legitimacy and power as a group is based on their reputation for intellectual honesty. If they label a dissenting opinion as discrimination or hate speech, they would need to pair it with a reasonable argument otherwise their reputation would decrease. This is a good thing. This is how groups should engage in politics.
Exactly. It would be helpful if that document went into detail about what can be classified as discrimination, hate speech, etc. so as to make those terms less malleable and abusable. I also wish that it emphasized the intent of someone's speech and actions rather than the content or other's reactions to speech.
In Quebec, there are a huge number of Zec's[1]. Basically non-profit, co-op hunting and fishing clubs. Quebec does have the advantage that there is a huge amount of mostly empty Crown land, but they are pretty common in the denser section south of the St. Lawrence as well.
Isn't it obvious that adolescent startup founders wouldn't want to hire adults? That would be a complete role reversal of their entirely lifes experience with adults.
I'm also not surprised that investors are biased. As a group, they are just people with money. That feature doesn't preclude them from being unreasonable in the way (one would hope) being an engineer implies a certain level of objective rationality...
What does surprise me is the fear that is apparently spreading among aging engineers. You didn't get where you are by being afraid. Every problem you've ever solved proves your ability to bend systems to your will. You design your own fate. Don't make yourself vulnerable by believing anything else.
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On a more practical note, if college students had more opportunity to team up with older professionals on small co-owned projects, I think that would go a long way toward bridging the gap. Exposure is key. That's like, behavior therapy 101.
If this was a website where I could practice solving algorithm problems and people could comment at points during the playback, I would totally sign up.
STUDYING:
You are all computer scientists.
You know what FINITE AUTOMATA can do.
You know what TURING MACHINES can do.
For example, Finite Automata can add but not multiply.
Turing Machines can compute any computable function.
Turing machines are incredibly more powerful than Finite Automata.
Yet the only difference between a FA and a TM is that
the TM, unlike the FA, has paper and pencil.
Think about it.
It tells you something about the power of writing.
Without writing, you are reduced to a finite automaton.
With writing you have the extraordinary power of a Turing machine.
Paper! Seriously, this was 1960? Even ancient Sumerians were using paper to do math. I don't understand why in 1960 anyone would seriously still be doing math with holes and rocks.
Stanford Ph.D. student Richard Socher appreciates the work Google and others are doing to build neural networks that can understand human language. He just thinks his work is more useful ...
"We’re actually able to put whole sentences and longer phrases into vector spaces without ignoring the order of the words."
Wait, didn't Mikolov et al. (Google) [just figure out][1] how to put entire languages into vector spaces?
