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> I see people report learning stuff, working on side projects, etc etc on HN. How?

1. people on the internet are full of shit

2. Demis Hassabis (DeepMind) takes a 3 hour break from work to, quote: "have dinner and spend time with family". Then has another work/thinking session. Give it a try. That's what I'm trying to do

> It is possible to disagree without being disagreeable,

-1 for strawman

disagreeing with someone and raking high on Disagreeableness BigFive trait are two different things

data is just that, not an argument in itself. how you use it to disprove something is up to you.

I don't trust numbers on Blind.

But I do look at averages for a specific role at a specific company on Levels

People and jobs are non-fungible: no two candidates are identical, no two jobs are the same.

Bid/ask spreads make sense to me only in situations when fungible units of A are traded for fungible units of B.

a side, but a sincere question: what do Data Scientists do and what can I expect one to produce as productive output?

I've worked as an SDE on data engineering projects myself (Spark / Hadoop stuff) and have friends who are ML researches and develop things like better recommendation results. Never met a data scientist.

> To be fair though, two of the most brilliant devs I've ever meet in my career had master's degrees

From what era / decade? World isn't static. MS is CS earned in 80s means a different thing than the one earned today

#2 links to atomic-energy.ru

So it's probably nuclear plant control console and I'm guessing nuclear fuel rods are represented by a dot inside the "sun" and rods themselves are suspended in some sort of a circular enclosure

Is it illegal you use fake name and fake age on the internet? asking for a friend :)

I've been using ChatGPT to summarize text and as a replacement for a search engine to look up concepts.

  Examples:
  - "what is the difference between Semigroup and Monoid"
  - "summarize following text: <paste something convoluted, like the transcript of a speech by Jerome Powell, Federal Reserve Chair >"

I'm heavily involved in interviewing at my current org and have been pondering same questions.

Some ideas:

  1. use ChatGPT (or similar) to test your questions. I read that GPT-like models cannot do abstract manipulation. Perhaps there is a way to phrase follow up questions such that the model cannot relate to the earlier question. 
  
  2. in system design session, focus on detail instead of high level. Also, you can draw a diagram of a design and ask the candidate to point out deficiencies.

  3. what if we could use GPT-like system to generate new programming questions of equal difficulty for each new interview candidate? this would solve the problem of questions leaking and making it to sites like LeetCode.

Since said person doesn't want to listen you and you don't have the direct authority over that person, I think it's reasonable to ask the team manager to deal with it.

Say something like the following. Just remember to include specific pieces of evidence that support your claim.

"Person X doesn't seem to care about company policies regarding the code quality. On following occasions: <list of offenses by person X> he/she did something sloppy that was against the policy A and refused to even acknowledge it during the review. Can you explain him/her why following these policies is important"