Godel has a vibe. Don’t be so sure.

Cantor is the infinity guy, so clearly he/it’s a mind-breaking eldritch abomination with tentacles. (Also, mostly 19th century)

I don’t know Frege.

Yeah, it’s really awful. With any luck, AI winter will follow AI summer, like usual, and the serious people can come out again. Although, aren’t CNNs more of a this century thing? I guess two decades is still decades…

IIRC autoencoders actually produce the same image to within our ability to notice, as well.

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 slightly deviate from a perfect gradient, for example.

The basic idea of a jpeg is to convert an image to a kind of frequency space, where each pixel corresponds to 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 that new space. (IIRC jpeg actually has a few extra features, as well)

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.

Well, there’s reason to think it is. Or at least, is for original, insightful questions; anybody can come up with “can I have more time off?”. 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 super 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 not really relevant here.

Also, I think that behavior is more related to the employer creating an environment where employees feel safe doing that

It’s also a big factor. Since that reply, it’s come up that OP isn’t actually management, but just does interviews. 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 their workers. 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 an exponential would just biject to the positive reals, since that’s how logarithms work.

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.

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 or question.

Are you sure you’re management material?

(This is a complement)

Yeah, could very well be. The “do absolutely everything with AI no matter what” idea is a circlejerk, too. (Just in very different spaces from this one)

On my project right now, I’m doing everything by hand. It just seems unlikely hallucinate-and-cull would be any faster at producing useful and well-architected networking logic. On the other hand, when it comes time to write a UI, spinning something up is probably worth it.

Nah, change with the times or get left behind.

I’m not afraid, give me those yummy downvotes.

I guess it makes sense - the more CO2 you breath, the more your body has to deal with, and it’s physiologically relevant.

If you didn’t read the article, don’t get too worked up - it’s a cell raised in a bath of ready-made cell organelles, which it can absorb and use, basically.

It’s still impressive, given what the state of the art was, but don’t expect it growing on a damp spot near you anytime soon.

It legitimately was for them, if you’re being serious.

Unfortunately, you make a publicly traded company, and it will always act like a publicly traded company, in the end. No pithy saying in the code of conduct will change that. It’s like how every dictatorship tends to become a monarchy.

2018, according to Wikipedia.

That’s true, if you had no GUI for an extended period, it’d be worth learning something that could do that. Although, other people are saying there’s a way in nano.

If you’re using a GUI, and working in an emulator, who cares if it’s not “proper”?

There’s lots of history you can look at to see how this works. The same thing does get invented more than once, but sometimes there’s different technologies that could each become dominant, and then there’s a real first mover advantage.

In Russia, they don’t really have highways. Everything is built around rail lines. In the Inca empire, they had highways, but highways with stairs because there was no widespread wheel usage (which itself might be down to limited available wagon pullers and rough terrain).

Lots of things are, decent and not.

Does this guy actually think the average AI-hater is also addicted to it?

That person probably exists, but they’re nowhere close to the majority.