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Tell me about yourself (followed up with details about your projects) What happens if you initialize the weights of a neural network to zero? What happens to the estimators of linear regression if you double the dataset? What is ridge regression? How do you sample points uniformly from a circle? How do you sample points uniformly from a sphere? Leetcode medium DP problem (jump game)
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Quantitative Researcher

Interviewed at Citadel

4
Sep 20, 2021

Tell me about yourself (followed up with details about your projects) What happens if you initialize the weights of a neural network to zero? What happens to the estimators of linear regression if you double the dataset? What is ridge regression? How do you sample points uniformly from a circle? How do you sample points uniformly from a sphere? Leetcode medium DP problem (jump game)

1. You have two time series Xt and Yt. You do a regression of Y over X and get coefficient \beta, t-stats and R2. Now you double the size of the original series with original data and do the regression with new \beta, t-stats and R2. How will \beta, t-stats and R2 change? 2. given an array of size n, find the fastest way to find maximum and minimum element.
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Quantitative Research Analyst

Interviewed at Two Sigma

3.9
Feb 23, 2016

1. You have two time series Xt and Yt. You do a regression of Y over X and get coefficient \beta, t-stats and R2. Now you double the size of the original series with original data and do the regression with new \beta, t-stats and R2. How will \beta, t-stats and R2 change? 2. given an array of size n, find the fastest way to find maximum and minimum element.

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