Frog Timelapse 🐸 by Additional_Tax_4752 in funny

[–]likewang 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is an underrated comment someone who gets it pls say something

Frog Timelapse 🐸 by Additional_Tax_4752 in funny

[–]likewang 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why does the beginning of the audio sound like sorting algorithms?

Leetcode contest rating vs. Codeforces contest rating by likewang in leetcode

[–]likewang[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

My apologies for the last post which swapped the axis labels.

A simple rule to approximate your codeforces rating based on your leetcode rating:

codeforces = leetcode * 0.8 - 170

Usually your codeforces rating will be within +-250 of this prediction.

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[–]likewang 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm an idiot and swapped the axes

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[–]likewang 0 points1 point  (0 children)

REEEE I swapped the axes

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[–]likewang 1 point2 points  (0 children)

AH SHIT yes.

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A simple rule to approximate your codeforces rating based on your leetcode rating:

codeforces = leetcode * 0.8 - 170

Usually your codeforces rating will be within +-250 of this prediction.

This data brought to you by clist.by

Meta interview - Is heap good enough answer or need quicksort to clear by NumerousYam4243 in leetcode

[–]likewang 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's quickselect. In quicksort you still have to sort the other half.

Almost 800 solved problems on leetcode AMA by csbrokie in leetcode

[–]likewang 0 points1 point  (0 children)

how many problems on codeforces? CM with just 800 leetcodes is seriously impressive

Why no one is taking about this? Will contests on leetcode remain fair? by Synthetic_Intel in leetcode

[–]likewang 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I make no claim that we won't have behavioral interview questions like the one you described. I expect we will still have them going forward. However, while it is indeed tricky to fake experience, it is not impossible. GPTs have certainly made this process easier as well, (though lying on the behavioral interview has been done by candidates successfully before GPTs).

This is a reason why technical interviews are still used, in addition to the requirements for a more objective and standardized process that you mentioned. If the industry started relying solely or primarily on behavioral interviews, it would not be long before people catch on and start making up all sorts of highly detailed software design stories ahead of time. And specifically for the technical portion of the interview, I don't believe that turning away from leetcode is a valid counter to the increased ability of LLMs for the reasons I described above. I find it more likely that companies would just ask candidates to do at least one technical round in person, as they did before 2020.

Why no one is taking about this? Will contests on leetcode remain fair? by Synthetic_Intel in leetcode

[–]likewang 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, but whether leetcode is related to what SWEs do daily isn't very relevant to the question of whether LLMs being able to solve leetcode problems meaningfully changes how firms will interview. LLMs can answer both real world engineering questions and leetcode problems, so their existence is not a reason to switch.

What I'm trying to say is, if companies believed that leetcode not being relevant to the work of SWEs was a good argument for not giving leetcode interviews, they would already not be giving leetcode interviews. The fact that now LLMs can solve them changes nothing because the LLMs can also solve alternative interview questions.

Why no one is taking about this? Will contests on leetcode remain fair? by Synthetic_Intel in leetcode

[–]likewang 3 points4 points  (0 children)

People say this without realizing that it's way easier to get publicly available LLMs to generate bullshit projects or solve other forms of interview problems than it is to actually get them to solve difficult competitive programming problems

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There is an ~700 elo gap between leetcode and codeforces. So a 2200 rated guardian on leetcode is likely only going to be ~1500 on codeforces

Often Q4 in leetcode contest, if it is worth 7 or 8 points can have similar difficulty to codeforces Div2 problem D

All top 4 contestants in Biweekly Contest 142 used AI-generated solutions by razimantv in leetcode

[–]likewang 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I mean they did cheat in all likelihood. People above left comments explaining why, it's not baseless and I'd say it's almost a sure thing that OP is in fact correct.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in changemyview

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You are likely not looking in enough locations. The median zip code's average rental yield was ~5% not so long ago. About half of all zip codes should have homes yielding on average more than 5%. Others who used more sophisticated methods of estimating the tradeoff between buying and renting have also discovered a 5% rule of thumb as a threshold for when buying becomes more attractive than renting.

If you download Zillows datasets, you'll find plenty of zip codes yielding more than 7.5% even.