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Surgeons and engineers make bank last I checked, so that’s a bit of a funny example. Markets do reward in-demand practical skills. What societies (in general) really reward is dumb luck and networking, though.

Are you sure you’re management material? (This is a complement)

Yeah, it’s really awful. With any luck, AI winter will follow AI summer, like usual, and the serious people can come out again. IIRC autoencoders actually produce the same image, as well.

It could be on a different subject, but it has to be a trick question. If they were prompted to ask more, that would undercut the whole point of the test, since OP wants employees that always ask.

They’re all real words, but not in an order that makes sense. And I’m not sure what algorithms there are by a Ross or Maxwell.

Yup. It seems a lot more likely than solving a problem that we still can’t solve, and that might not even be possible, in the 90’s.

Then I bet your stuff is actually good.

To explain a bit more, most of the information in an image is actually stuff we would never notice. The very specific way a few of a pixels proceed deviate from a perfect gradient, for example. The basic idea of a jpeg is to convert an image to frequency space, where each pixel corresponds to something a specific wave-like pattern. It’s reversable, preserving the information. and fast conversion to do, thanks to FFT. Even without, it would only be quadratic time. Then, the algorithm crops it in frequency space. (IIRC jpeg actually has a few extra features, as well)

I suspect it is, actually. We live in a society that rewards reliably doing and saying whatever you’re told to, and critical thinking (which isn’t just skepticism!) is remarkably rare when tested for. A lot of college kids with good grades got there because they learned to mindlessly repeat whatever stuff back when tested. Why that’s rewarded so much, and if there’s a way to encourage and teach actual independent though, are great questions, but that’s neither here nor there. Also, I think that behavior is more related to the employer creating an environment where employees feel safe doing that That’s also a big factor. It sounds like OP isn’t actually management, but just does interviews, as well. So, maybe they’re looking more for a good colleague than a good employee. If memory serves, Google used to use these kind of questions, but they stopped because that isn’t actually what they wanted or needed in an employee. A code monkey doesn’t need to question anything, in the end.

Bijecting to an exponential curve was also a hint. Anything that bijects to a an exponential also bijects to the positive reals, since that’s how logarithms work.

Hmm, guy who wrote his own kernel because he didn't like the ones that existed. I'm sure he's totally neurotypical. /s

Really young kids don't care and mingle freely. It's a learned thing; the latter. Although "oppressive" might be a bit on the strong side.

The best communicators are ones that stick to their own field. Neil Degrasse Tyson is kind of a bad one for that, as well. There's a lot of fields and subfields, so that means not any one particular person, unfortunately.

Sure, they're okay. Honestly we might be a bit too strict about avoiding them, at this point.

Where it becomes a problem is if you'd like to join whatever group, but the only one available is not open to you. Which happened a lot historically, but is rarer now.

I think their claim is nonsense, grossly exaggerated at best.

Can confirm, in my experience the problem with mancaves is that you pretty quickly want to let women in. There's no tradeoff, we can not talk about our feelings and make a mess in a mixed gender crowd, too.

You probably know, but someone is going to point out an ipv4 address is four bytes.

Look, an OpenRISC user.

That's because humanity dates back to the teletype era, before bytes. It was decided that saving candles was more important than having the extra century of lifespan. Now, by convention, the leftmost candle being unlit indicates it's a standard human and not a member of another species-alphabet, possibly requiring multiple cakes. (On a serious note, aging is not necessarily thought to be as simple as just the Hayflick limit)

64 bits and you get to watch heat death slowly set in. (Or, y'know, cosmological catastrophe depending on the full physics)

There is a tendency for some people to think anyone who's not exactly like them is bad. If they're saying that about centrists, it probably extends to anyone actually on their side of center but not in the right way, as well.

"It's not what you know, it's who you know" Honestly just the fact you can become a coder and get paid for it is impressive, by the historical human society average.

Ahh, because of the 9 month gestation. 9+3=12 I thought this was about some kind of obscure subnormal float convention or something.

Does surgery count? On the early Antarctica expeditions they wouldn't let anyone with an old war injury or surgical scars join, because scurvy can do something similar.

Depends what you mean by "leftists". The specific kind that's on Lemmy classifies the word dualistically in terms of Western imperialists vs. non-Western anti-imperialists, as opposed to in terms of my nation vs. outsiders. It's kind of an ill posed question, then. An anarchist might just say "I am a globalist". You're getting a lot of emphatic nos because nobody wants to be associated with right-coded vocabulary, even if it's more of a "wrong question" than a no. Same as if you bring up class war to the other end of the spectrum.

You win Lemmy, I need this one explained.

Godel has a vibe. Cantor is the infinity guy, so clearly he’s an eldritch abomination with tentacles. (Also mostly 19th century) I don’t know Frege.

The people at FAANGS (or whatever they’re calling it now) famously start with wages that would be the absolute peak of someone else’s career. Never mind comparing to an unskilled worker. I know less about what physical/“real” engineers make in 2026, but I doubt it’s changed that much.

Yeah, that’s decent. Not fuck-you money, but decent. OP asked for any example, so I went with FAANGS, but wages there are inflated by being a bunch of monopolies all headquartered in the same place. Last I heard a senior dev in Canada makes like 60k.