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Re:Pen and paper exercises in machine learning (2021) by oldsecondhand on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @02:40AM (#31917170)
> They joined Google when there was no leetcode and when Google had amazing high standards in asking math and algorithm puzzles

How was that any better? Leetcode is math and algorithm puzzles.

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Re:Pen and paper exercises in machine learning (2021) by hintymad on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @12:57PM (#31922796)
The point is that they didn't cram. They were just talented in math or CS, or they were geeky enough to be well read and knew lots of techniques.
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