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Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Quasirandom Sequences (... by actually_a_dog on Monday April 11, 2022 @04:50PM (#30994816)
Oh boy. Were you offered, and did you take the job? It's always so disheartening to see such ignorance coming from an interviewer, isn't it?
Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Quasirandom Sequences (... by gnulinux on Monday April 11, 2022 @05:06PM (#30995045)
Ok let's be charitable here. Being confused by terminology is definitely not unheard-of. I don't know how well established these terms are, but it is true that in some fields "quasi" used in some way similar to "pseudo" or "lesser". If the interviewer previously studied these as PRNG instead of QRNG, I doubt that means they're "ignorant".
Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Quasirandom Sequences (... by curiousgal on Monday April 11, 2022 @05:30PM (#30995352)
Obviously these things happen but his demeanor was a major red flag.
Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Quasirandom Sequences (... by curiousgal on Monday April 11, 2022 @05:31PM (#30995371)
I was given an offer but I passed on. The entire experience was awful. The other interviewers did not bother to turn their webcams on (nor did they even bother to give an excuse for not doing so). The whole thing felt like an interrogation.