Re:Ask HN: Can engineers from Google or Facebook solve white...
by dekhn on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @10:05AM
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My favorite was this question, quoted verbatim from a test in my biophysics grad program:
What is the time resolved flourescence of a fluorophore in 4 dimensions?
The solution, explained to me by my friend who was a very smart physicist, was the first time I heard the word "tensor" (this was a long time ago, long before machine learning used that word) and I was obsessed with the idea that there was all this cool math you could use to solve hard problems.
What is the time resolved flourescence of a fluorophore in 4 dimensions?
The solution, explained to me by my friend who was a very smart physicist, was the first time I heard the word "tensor" (this was a long time ago, long before machine learning used that word) and I was obsessed with the idea that there was all this cool math you could use to solve hard problems.