Or perhaps you're testing whether they are good at asking question – i.e "please define that term precisely and provide a clear example".
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Inverting Binary Trees: Interview Problem Not CS Concept
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In fact, "invert a binary tree" does *not* exist as a computer science concept at all. It was created entirely as an interviewing problem. If you ask someone "can you invert a binary tree" then you're testing whether they know the definition of this interview-specific term.
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FastDiffusion course teaches comprehensive diffusion model knowledge
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If you finish the fastdiffusion course you'll know a *lot* about diffusion 😀
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The Truth Lies Between Extremes: Context and Misinformation
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The reality is somewhere between your response, and what you're responding to. There's a lot of context you're missing, but also plenty of garbage in the "files".
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Chinese Version Uses Different Task Counting Character Occurrences
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The Chinese version is doing a fairly different task. It's using the character for "ha" (as in the English "haha" laughing sound) and asking how many times that appears in a sentence. Chinese doesn't really have many-character words, so the task doesn't quite fit here.
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Optimizing Developer Environment for Better Code Quality
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It's the right call though. Optimising your environment means you'll write better code, faster. Air and sleep and the most important of all.
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OpenAI Recommends GPT-4.1 Over Codex-Mini API
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The codex-mini in the API is a 4o fine-tune, and OpenAI recommend using 4.1 instead.
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Andrej Karpathy Discusses LLMs and Software 3.0 Framework
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Thank you @karpathy for the shout-out to llms.txt in your wonderful talk about software 3.0 https://
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OpenAI’s AI Technology Monopoly Raises Competitive Concerns
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And now here we are, still concerned that all of the AI technology will be locked up inside of one company (OpenAI).
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Dev Evangelist Role and Professional Recognition in Tech
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I wasn't thinking of a social media manager, but a dev evangelist or similar. E.g @OfficialLoganK has been such a champ at Google that he got to do a public interview with the CEO! 😀