Superb. Clearly in your case you summoned the necessary will to lose all that weight. But I think another important factor is that you established a new lifestyle/better eating habits.
> And that's why weight loss techniques need to be treated like a new lifestyle, instead of a goal you hit and then finish. I lost 60 lbs a couple of years ago ...
Firstly, fantastic achievement. I'm curious as to what motivated you enough to put in the effort (I'm assuming it required effort).
Secondly, I wonder if the speed/drastic nature of the weight-loss can be counter-productive. When you think about people don't become over-weight overnight. Perhaps a more gradual pace with some time for settling at various stages of the process...I'm thinking losing weight over a couple of years as opposed to over a couple of months.
> My only hope is that a benevolent AI will coordinate this, having prime directives not to harm humans ( by the means of interfering with the communication ).
> *citation needed
Yes. Citations would be useful. To me, it seems to make sense intuitively. I'd say that at the very least it is a fair/objective way of ranking candidates. Particularly so if where the ratio of candidates to positions is high.
> Who is this article aimed at?
Presumably at anybody looking to 'crack' the coding interview. Obviously not all of it is going to be relevant for every role but I found some useful things in there. At the very least I think it offers a structured approach on which to model your own preparation.
> If we can't figure out how to do unbiased interviews at the individual level, then AI will never solve this problem. Anyone that tells you otherwise is selling you snake oil.
I wonder to what extent people want to solve it and perhaps more importantly whether or not it can be solved at all...
> Many who consider themselves programmers produce solution space solutions that just don't get to the core of the problem space problems. This is a function of the simple fact that many programmers never have the opportunity to see what the problem space experts are doing or actually need. This is a real shortcoming in the education of programmers.
I can't argue with that. I would add that another factor is how the work is structured and presented to the programmers. In many places programmers largely disconnected from any users. The programmers are usually given a set of requirements by a third party who themselves derived it from someone other than a user/consumer. Thus, programmers may end producing lovely programs that don't actually address the needs of users/consumers.
Okay...so they didn't fall that trick...but I get the impression that all they want is the opportunity to grill the top executive. The best that can happen is that said executive will apologize, prostrate, etc and the show goes on...
If everyone starts that doing we're going to put the pharmaceuticals out of business. There'd be riots!