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by ngkabra 1y ago
The article talks about a 2-dimensional grid which starts at (0,0) (bottom right) and extends infinitely to the right and the top, so all (x,y) for non-negative integers x,y exist. But x or y negative does not exist. Given a list of possibl
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by ngkabra 3y ago
It works in pre-interview filtering rounds because companies hiring processes are usually broken and the smartest people are not working on those aspect. If, on the actual job, you're copy-pasting buggy ChatGPT code, someone will notic
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ChatGPT Is Making Our Software Engineers Dumb(futureiq.substack.com)
2 points by ngkabra 3y ago|2 comments
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My Journey from an Introvert to a Networker(futureiq.substack.com)
2 points by ngkabra 5y ago|0 comments
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Why Do a PhD?(futureiq.substack.com)
1 points by ngkabra 5y ago|1 comments
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by ngkabra 7y ago
That would be Chandraayan: moon + journey/path. Chandrayaan is moon + vehicle.
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by ngkabra 9y ago
Maybe the libraries are less known because they're lesser libraries? --- "Less known libraries" would be libraries that fewer people know. "Lesser known libraries" would be libraries of a lower quality. [source]( ht
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by ngkabra 11y ago
While that is sort of true for a take-home test, there is still value in giving candidates an online or in-person programming task that needs to be completed in a small amount of time (e.g. 1 hour)
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by ngkabra 11y ago
Sounds good in theory. But if enough companies started doing this, I can guarantee you that Indian companies will spring that will offer to create an open source project for you for $100 to $1000 depending on complexity of project, and amou
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by ngkabra 13y ago
Right. In fact, in my opinion, the most important thing a conference provides is the quality of the peer-review and the selection process. So a conference that claims peer-review, but does not provide it, is really taking your money and not
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by ngkabra 13y ago
> The problem is more like not teaching the students how to find a reputable path to publication and not weighing the quality of the venue. Actually, in my opinion, most of the students couldn't care less about publications. They ju
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by ngkabra 13y ago
Actually, I did not get worked up about the existence of such conferences. My main gripe is against the education system and the ridiculous requirement that makes it mandatory for all post-graduate students to have 2 published papers before
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by ngkabra 13y ago
I know that this is a problem, and I don't blame you. However, one of the admissions committee members of a top-10 US university told me how they deal with this problem. That they keep track of good universities in India, and what GPA
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by ngkabra 13y ago
Thanks. I've updated the intro of the post to make this clearer. The PhD applications problem is a different issue. We're churning out a million engineers every year, and a good fraction of them are convinced that getting into a M
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by ngkabra 13y ago
Nope. If you can't afford to pay for the conference, your paper does not get published at all (of the two papers I got accepted, I paid for one and that appeared, while the one I did not pay for did not appear). And once you pay, then
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by ngkabra 13y ago
Most conferences are supposed to have a selection process (in most cases a "peer review" process) in which all submissions are sent to multiple reviewers who are experts in that area, and only papers which are deemed "accepta
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by ngkabra 13y ago
They claimed that they accepted almost half. My guess is that they accepted 100% of the submissions they received. Because if there was any process for rejection, both my papers should have been rejected.
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by ngkabra 13y ago
I am not sure I understand what you're saying. I know that getting a paper in a conference like this is not an achievement. However, I know lots of students who do not know this. I know faculty in Engineering colleges who do not know t
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by ngkabra 13y ago
They did say it's an INTERNATIONAL conference...
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by ngkabra 13y ago
Good point. I have that point buried way down in the post. Need to give it prominence somewhere in the beginning.
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by ngkabra 13y ago
Don't even get me started on the quality of the advisors... :-(
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by ngkabra 13y ago
What depressed me the most was seeing the poor, sincere students who had come to the conference to present. Some of them were tweaking their PPTs. Others were going over notes for their talk. They were clearly (I think) under the impression
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by ngkabra 13y ago
Original author here. The two things you pointed out were exactly the two things that first caused me to get suspicious of this conference. However, as notthetup points out, there are lots of people in the Indian education system who don&#x
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by ngkabra 14y ago
The love of truth, maybe?
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by ngkabra 14y ago
Really stirred? I thought he proved that motion is impossible...
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by ngkabra 14y ago
I find myself using these aliases regularly: df = diff --color --color-words --abbrev st = status -s l = log --graph --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commig --decorate There are a lot more at this stackoverflow thread: http://sup
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by ngkabra 14y ago
This description is a bit confusing, so I'll assume that the protocol was this: 100 people are asked a possibly self-incriminating question - "Are you indulging in bad activity X?" They are expected to toss a coin. If the coin said tails, t
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by ngkabra 15y ago
At 12 characters, this is definitely not the shortest, but it is a totally different approach than the other solutions: >>> f = lambda: g()if 0 else(1) >>> f() 1
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by ngkabra 15y ago
If you're a user in the modern internet, it is not cool for you to keep yourself so much at the mercy of companies whom you don't pay. I always keep a Thunderbird client running in the background of my laptop, which sucks out all emails fro
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by ngkabra 15y ago
It is very likely that Kottke does know about the reasons behind Van Halen's free bowl of M&M's since the link in his article is to the Snopes page that exists for the sole purpose of explaining those reasons.

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