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Good at programming competitions does not equal good on the job [video]
A couple of days ago I watched a How Computers Learn talk by Peter Norvig. In this talk, Peter talked about how Google did machine learning and at one point he mentioned that at Google they also applied machine learning to hiring. He said that one thing that was surprising to him was that being a winner at…
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 2017 | Good at programming competitions does not equal good on the job [video] by jpn | 372 | 166 |
| Apr 5, 2015 | Programming competitions correlate negatively with being good on the job by luu | 205 | 105 |
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Linked from 5 Hacker News comments by 5 different people, from May 2015 to May 2018.
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- erikbern · May 2, 2018
- ubernostrum · Sep 27, 2017
- jodooshi · Apr 15, 2017
- appleskin · Nov 15, 2015
- x4m · May 22, 2015
