Thursday, December 5, 2019

  • Paul asked for help with some web development stuff.
  • Tensorflow = most ML. PyTorch = computer vision and language processing. Keras = deep learning and neural nets.
  • Caveat emptor = buyer beware.
  • My top artist of the past year on spotify was erra.
  • Reddit's userbase is 430m, which is bigger than twitter.
  • Pip is getting 400k in funding to improve next year.
  • Django released its next major version, 3.0. Biggest improvement is ASGI (async).
  • Watched velvet buzzsaw. Thought it was horrible, personally.
  • Updated linkedin, finally.
    • Certifications: CLAD.
    • Added finish date to spacex, vacated current position.
    • Awards: capstone 1st, smallsat 2nd. Moved things around.
    • Added organizations like calsol, pts, citris, ssdl.
    • Removed clarity consultants and citris from work exp. Just pumpkin spacex self.
    • Adjusted all skills.
    • Added GRE scores.
    • Added gitlab and blog links.
    • Accepted all requests (there were hundreds), looked at all messages.
  • Practice questions.
    • Looked through interviewbit. Also looked through hiredintech. Lot of basic info on both.
    • Moved on to careercup. Great repository of practice questions.
    • DP = dynamic programming. Type of problem usually works well with some classical recursion. Solve the subproblem, store it, and assemble them together to get the final solution.
    • Did a TON more videos on youtube.
  • Watched a few videos of candidates detailing their 2019 interview processes at the big ones, google/amazon/etc. It's disappointing how much weight is still given to datastructures/algorithms questions, especially in non entry level roles.
  • Started the brine for a new round of beef ribs. These ones are kinda old, and were frozen/thawed.
  • Python reminder. Mutable = (dict, list, set). Immutable = (str, int, float, tuple, bool).