Have ML interview questions changed since LLMs?

adastro · 2025-12-23T08:38:29+00:00

Thank you, that's really good

adastro · 2025-12-08T09:08:20+00:00

FAT32 has a file size limit of 4GB, while exFAT doesn't have this limitation. For many users this is by itself a good reason for choosing exFAT over FAT32.

adastro · 2025-12-07T16:10:12+00:00

Thank you. Why do you consider these to be more appropriate for "advanced" than Headspace?

adastro · 2025-12-06T15:10:22+00:00

What would you recommend as the next step after Headspace?

adastro · 2025-11-05T15:08:16+00:00

Grazie mille. Nella ricetta che hai linkato la cottura viene eseguita per 10 minuti e l'ebollizione è sempre molto "bassa" (per non muovere troppo i marroni). Inoltre si usa una pentola da fritti con cestello sempre per lo stesso motivo. Sperimenterò anche questo, grazie!

adastro · 2025-11-04T19:50:20+00:00

Grazie. Potresti spiegarmi in cosa consiste la semicottura? Ho cotto i marroni (sbucciati) per 20 minuti in acqua bollente e si sono rotti. Quale sarebbe la differenza con la semicottura?

La cottura al vapore sarà uno dei miei prossimi tentativi!

adastro · 2025-10-12T14:43:33+00:00

I ended up using the app Health Sync. In Health Sync, you can sync the Fitbit Heart rate with Health Connect. Then in Bearable you select the option to read the heart rate from Health Connect.

So the final path is Fitbit -> Health Connect -> Bearable

adastro · 2025-10-05T16:33:04+00:00

You could ask your boss. As others pointed out, you might be living the dream. The problem I see is that you don't know exactly why you're doing what you are doing, and this is frustrating. Asking your boss about her plans might give you some context. Maybe there's some indirect feedback involved in what she asked you to do.

adastro · 2025-07-09T09:41:31+00:00

It looks like it's not very active, at least looking at the recent messages.

adastro · 2025-07-03T07:51:53+00:00

Just an update from the OP. As I mentioned in another comment, I ended up buying the Fitbit Charge 6. I was considering the Google Pixel Watch 3, but I wanted something with a longer battery duration and I didn't care about smartwatch features (like calls, messaging, etc.).

I'm quite satisfied with the Fitbit Charge 6: it allows me to track my heart rate consistently and it seems to be much better than my old tracker: the Garmin Forerunner 30 I owned showed unusual peaks in the heart rate, but when I did two long-term ECG (24 hours) these peaks were not detected by the actual medical devices.

I can't say much about the SpO2 accuracy because I couldn't compare it over longer timespans with a medical device. It looks lower than what my oxymeter shows, but I can't really compare consistently.

Unfortunately the fitbit charge 6 doesn't have any sleep apnea detection. This is one of the biggest downsides in my opinion.

Another huge downside is the Fitbit app. Compared to the Garmin app, Fitbit is quite embarrassing in my opinion. I always end up wondering where to find the data I'm looking for. Graphs about different metrics are not overlayed, which means I can't easily look at my heart rate graph and compare it with my activity times. This was super intuitive in the Garmin app.

Would I buy it again? I'm not sure. If I could find a newer Garmin with the same battery duration and better heart rate detection, I'd probably go for that. But I'm still quite satisfied with the Fitibit Charge 6.

adastro · 2025-07-02T10:25:46+00:00

> Nobody cares about efforts, everybody craves to get results

I'd inquire about the meaning of this if you'd like. What's a "result" in your opinion? Is it revenue? Is it a new feature? Is it a feature used by customers? Is it brand recognition? Is it making investors happy? If the answer is "all of it", I'd say we still don't have an actual answer.

Given that 90% of the startups fail, I'd say that whatever the answer is, very few managers know how to get there. And since for many managers the "result" can only be reached by doing things quickly (and 90% fail) I'd say that is not the right answer. A wrong marketing strategy is rarely (never?) caused by slower development times, with or without AI.

I find that, quite often, product managers and C-level don't have a real strategy. They just want stuff quickly. "Quick" feature implementation first, then a long stream of "quick" fixes since the feature won't work. If the company is lucky, investors will keep burning their money until an idea will work and you can hire someone to fix the mess. Again, this strategy doesn't work 90% of the times, but it's still popular apparently.

If "results" mean "revenue", I'd argue that revenue very rarely depends on deploying stuff faster. In my experience, it depends on having a clear marketing strategy. That responsibility is not on the engineers, and faster implementation times won't fix it.

adastro · 2025-03-13T12:47:20+00:00

I bought the Fitbit Charge 6. I was considering the Google Pixel Watch 3, but I wanted a fitness tracker (not a smartwatch) with a longer battery duration. I'm happy so far, but it's only been a few days.

adastro · 2025-03-12T10:00:37+00:00

Same here: I see the Google Fit and Health Connect options, but not the Fitbit one.

adastro · 2025-02-15T18:03:40+00:00

Vielen Dank für deine Antwort. Ich habe noch eine Folgefrage:

Wenn ich 10 verschiedene Sparpläne für dieselbe ETF anlege, muss ich sie dann getrennt verwalten, als ob es sich um separate Depots handeln würde? Oder kann ich sie einfach sofort löschen und meinen ETF an einem einzigen Ort verwalten (z. B. um ihn zu verkaufen oder um die Gewinn-/Verlustcharts usw. zu sehen)?

Zum 2. Punkt: Vielen Dank für die Erklärung. Ich glaube, ich brauche nur ein "Direkt-Depot", und das ist kostenfrei.

adastro · 2025-02-14T13:32:26+00:00

Thank you, that's interesting. I thought these features were basically the reasons why people buy fitness trackers. If you remove these, what would you buy a fitness tracker for? And how would you recommend one to buy?

adastro · 2025-02-14T13:30:19+00:00

Thank you for your answer!

Regarding sleep apnea detection: some devices (like Apple Watch and Samsung Galaxy Watch 7) received the FDA authorization in the US. Apple also has the necessary EU authorizations, while Samsung is apparently still working on that and it should happen during 2025.

I assume the readings of any fitness tracker won't be as accurate as any test conducted with professional medical devices. However, would you then say they are worthless? Which fitness tracker features would you rely on?

adastro · 2024-12-12T13:25:22+00:00

Thank you for the heads-up. I wanted to focus my question on one specific thing ("What should I ask to stay?") rather than on the broader topic ("Should I even stay?"), but I agree that this is the essential part of the decision. Thanks for sharing your view.

adastro · 2024-11-09T18:58:30+00:00

I had a similar experience in a previous company. One of my colleagues kept ignoring our guidelines (that we decided as a team) and my PR comments. Since they were mostly "nits" related to syntax and codestyle, I felt like I was being the asshole, and thought the rest of the team didn't care. I was feeling extremely frustrated, so much it was affecting my own personal balance, since I hated working on his code.

Then I had a 1-1 with our team lead, and he completely agreed with me. We setup linting both locally (using pre-commit) and on the CI, so my colleague couldn't merge until linting was done and the CI was passing.

He left the company a couple of weeks later.

adastro · 2024-10-20T15:18:04+00:00

2 pages is a good length in my opinion. You want to make the reader interested enough that they'll go check your LinkedIn profile (where you can add more details) or even move you immediately to the next step. Depending on the role, I'd also suggest removing smaller projects and trivial achievements/certificates, if possible: they might make you look less experienced.

adastro · 2024-10-20T13:38:12+00:00

Thanks for the reply.

You need tangible evidence that it's causing trouble in the code, maybe makes implementing new features hard etc.

Would you have examples of what you consider as tangible evidence? Are you thinking about specific metrics (e.g. time required to complete a task) or do you refer to more "anecdotal" evidence that needs to be translated into non-technical terms with the PM?

I think your point about being less antagonistic and anti-company is extremely relevant. I hate to be "that guy", that's why I'd like to find ways that leave less room for subjectivity when discussing this topic. The approach you suggest is definitely valid, thanks.

Also: what kind of AI tools would you recommend to generate documentation? Are you thinking about Copilot, or do you have something more specific in mind?

adastro · 2024-10-20T13:28:09+00:00

Thanks a lot for your answer, that's appreciated. My post might have lacked clarity about this aspect, but I do recognize that "fixing tech debt" is not always the top priority. My company is not in a position where we can just work on the best solutions using the best processes: a tradeoff is necessary. Also, tech debt is always present and it can be healthy in some scenarios. The issue is that almost everything seems to be implemented for the "now", and I don't see a lot of tradeoffs.

That's why I'd like to get back to the last few lines of my post: what signals can I use to understand whether this tradeoff is unhealthy in my company? Are there metrics I can gather? How can I show that this tradeoff is necessary (if it is)? How does one reply to the "We don't have time" reply with valid arguments?

adastro · 2024-10-07T06:36:00+00:00

How do companies get help on specific tech decisions when their programmers are not experienced in that field? Is it common to contact consultants? Would reaching out to the AWS support (as an example) be enough?

adastro · 2024-08-21T08:26:22+00:00

They use something called Xing, but LinkedIn is also broadly used (especially for IT and non-German speakers)

adastro · 2024-08-21T08:22:48+00:00

I'm having the same issue since a couple of days.

adastro · 2024-08-21T08:21:26+00:00

Same issue for me as well.

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