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The first task was to simulate diffusion limited aggregation, which isn't difficult itself. The second task is to simulate and estimate sticking probability for an aggregate. Each simulation will take hours and this is not worth it.
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Senior Data Scientist

Interviewed at Locus

3.8
Jan 17, 2020

The first task was to simulate diffusion limited aggregation, which isn't difficult itself. The second task is to simulate and estimate sticking probability for an aggregate. Each simulation will take hours and this is not worth it.

Lots of questions on machine learning techniques, use of regularization, differences between L1 and L2 regularization, why don't people use L0.5 regularization for instance. Use of deep learning, why Rectified Linear Unit is a good activation function etc.
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Senior Data Scientist

Interviewed at Netflix

4.1
Mar 5, 2016

Lots of questions on machine learning techniques, use of regularization, differences between L1 and L2 regularization, why don't people use L0.5 regularization for instance. Use of deep learning, why Rectified Linear Unit is a good activation function etc.

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