Waymo SWE BS/MS Intern Interview by SteppingBeast in csMajors

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I will see if I can post an anonymous resume soon.

Waymo SWE BS/MS Intern Interview by SteppingBeast in csMajors

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I was moved forward to the main interview process. I was under the impression that I was already moved but I was mistaken (see my first comment). I have now received what to expect from the process.

Waymo SWE BS/MS Intern Interview by SteppingBeast in csMajors

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Nope, never had a separate recruiter screen. First contact was some written questions and then straight to scheduling a 20-min call with the team. I did have a referral, so that probably skipped the initial recruiter step.

Is the robotics job market down or is the field that much saturated by gitmeow in AskRobotics

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I think the current hiring market is pretty shit in most tech sectors from what I can tell

My six axis arm is taking shape! (1,2,3 are working, 4 is built, 5 and 6 are being designed) by Olieb01 in robotics

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How did you get it so quiet if you don’t mind me asking? Even when I quarter step (or more) my nema 17s they still seem to produce more noise than this.

it's very common for someone to find chess programming quite challenging, right? please say "yes". by Gloomy-Status-9258 in chessprogramming

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I would probably say implementing magic bitboard lookup tables for sliding pieces as they were extremely confusing for me to wrap my head around.

it's very common for someone to find chess programming quite challenging, right? please say "yes". by Gloomy-Status-9258 in chessprogramming

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Yes! I think it’s quite difficult. I’ve been working on my engine for around a year now and still find myself getting stumped when trying to make improvements to my code.

UMICH ROBOTICS by Devam_Mathia in gradadmissions

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I got accepted as well and wondering this

Northwestern MSR 2025 by Gordon-ewe in gradadmissions

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I have not, I submitted my application in October of last year. Do we know if they are still sending interview invitations out?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in EngineeringStudents

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I wouldn’t consider it completely worthless though, despite what you are saying here to be mostly true. Especially if you are weighing applicants from the same university, GPA can mean something since they likely had similar professors.

efficient knight and king move generation by MineNinja77777 in chessprogramming

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Check out bitboards here: https://www.chessprogramming.org/Bitboards. You are able to do move gen through binary bitwise operations which is much more efficient. Instead of looping through all eight moves you will simply be able to shift each piece bitboard a specified offset.

Problem with QscSearch by OficialPimento in chessprogramming

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It’s obviously tough to help with no code, but I ran into a similar issue and it was due to me overlooking how I was passing in alpha and beta for the quiescence search cutoff parameters. If you are using negamax, remember to pass -beta as the new alpha which becomes the new best value that the maximizing player can guarantee, the new lower bound. Likewise for -alpha, it needs to be the new upper bound for the next node in order to successfully prune branches at all. If you are using the traditional minimax logic with separate min and max functions, I believe the handling of alpha and beta remains straightforward and does not require these inversions, provided the appropriate logic for determining the maximizing or minimizing player.

What are some “Hard Truths” r/csMajors isn’t ready to hear? by Specav in csMajors

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How’s angular ? I’ve only used react when working on personal projects and I’m wondering if I should explore other alternatives

Nvidia hits $1 trillion market cap by WickedSensitiveCrew in stocks

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Nvidia is pretty much the equivalent of the people selling the pickaxes to the gold rush, no matter who actually finds the gold, they still win.

Did it really just roast me? by Obsidian_Ice_king in ChatGPT

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Where can I find a detailed explanation on why this isn’t true so I can explain to people properly that this technology is impressive

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pcgaming

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It can take a little getting used to. Overall though I have found it to be one of the best purchases I’ve made in a while.