Speaking as a woman myself, I wholeheartedly agree with your comment about women not showing that they are interested in a man. I have been in relationships with three or four men who had no idea I was interested in them initially; I was expecting them to make the first move, which they did after a long while. I hate to think of the number of potentially wonderful relationships I have missed out on because I never made the first move.
Seriously seriously seriously OP, you've got to try to make the first move. Women, regrettably, are inherently passive about this sort of thing.
There is a set list of topics that come up every year in these programming competitions, including:
* dynamic programming
* tries
* depth/breadth first traversal of a graph
* combinatorics
* graph colouring
* prime generation techniques
These topics are almost guaranteed to crop up every year, and the people who do well in these programming competitions learn all these techniques off by heart. They have their own library and macros which do all this stuff, and when they read the question they instantly see which technique they need to use and boom they're done. You have to remember that these people have been practising this stuff from a very early age, and that in many cases, spending hours and hours becoming good at this is their only way out of a crappy life (Eastern Europeans). However, being good at competitive programming has very little correlation with being a good software engineer (I think there is some analysis done by the likes of Google or Microsoft which proves this, I will try to find the link later).
Now that I've stopped using it I find that I'm in a better, more stable mood throughout the day. Not being reminded of my inferiority means I find I can concentrate better on self-improvement i.e. the things I should be doing if I want to be as successful as these people I'm so jealous of.
How to determine what restaurants a person will like based on their past ratings. This is not trivial; it is difficult to say what are the features which determine why a person likes a restaurant, so I'm thinking this would be a problem that could be tackled with deep learning i.e., automatic learning of features rather than hand-crafting in advance.
This is similar to the problem of movie/book recommendations, which has not been solved to my satisfaction. I have yet to see any good recommendation systems out there which go beyond recommending movies based on simple things like 'same actor was in this movie', 'people who watched that watched this' etc.
Thank you. Just to confirm, I have a good job (in my research field), but it's paying half as much as I'd get from the top tech companies, and that's what's killing me. I guess I wish I had started on a much higher salary, because it can only go up from there. It's the top tier companies that are rejecting me.
* Rubbish font handling and formatting
* Superfluous functionality when it doesn't get the important things right
* The new beta interface doesn't give you a nice general overview of your notes. I preferred the old interface.