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Re:Google AI Education Resources by o10449366 on Monday July 22, 2019 @08:21AM (#20497284)
Ask them about statistics and when it's appropriate to use certain models over others. It's basic, but pretty revealing if a candidate doesn't understand basic tradeoffs between bias and variance when it comes to model selection.
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Re:Google AI Education Resources by krapht on Monday July 22, 2019 @08:29AM (#20497329)
Knowing about the bias-variance tradeoff is like asking a candidate to pass Fizzbuzz. It doesn't tell you anything except that they aren't completely fraudulent.

Going into more detail isn't something that a non-technical manager type would be able to do.

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