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shikharja

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    Show HN: Agent Architect Skill for building agentic systems

    I built a skill for building agents that helped me ship agentic products within days that otherwise took several weeks and broke often in production. It is inspired by gstack.

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    Ask HN: How should I hire mobile developers?

    Curious about how you (especially hiring managers and interviewers) hire mobile developers? What are the interview rounds? Do you ask your candidates to build an app or ask simple …

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    Comment #20882119

    Looks very interesting. But when would I want to use OmniSciDB and OmniSci charts? I am not a working data scientist so my understanding here is limited.

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    Comment #20882101

    > Although we can show that Facebook use seems to lead to diminished well-being How do you define "diminished well-being"?

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    Comment #20840374

    How does FollowUp decide which question is important to me? (if at all) I'm concerned about the level of access required for this app before I try it out (I am a Product Manager). …

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    Comment #20840333

    Thank you ska. This is pretty insightful, and actually makes sense. We will try to incorporate your suggestions as we create more challenges. We are also looking for more data scie…

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    Comment #20840293

    We had to reduce the time limit on the test to handle the traffic. The intended test duration is 90-120mins. I have updated the test duration to 90mins now. There is indeed some fe…

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    Comment #20840257

    If you are interested, we are looking for data scientists and developers in general from the community to help us built these solutions and provide us with honest feedback. We are …

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    Comment #20834739

    If would like to see more Data Science questions (not available in the free trial), I'd be happy to give you a demo. Let me know how to reach you.

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    Comment #20834699

    That's great to hear Ryan! You can sign up for the free trial for a full experience here - https://www.hackerrank.com/products/free-trial .

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    Comment #20834555

    By 3rd bullet, you mean Data Validation?

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    Comment #20834138

    Do you think candidates looking for Data Science jobs would be open to performing a half a day exercise? We optimized these challenges to allow candidates to show as much of their …

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    Comment #20832250

    Thank you for the feedback! - We are not automatically grading it. We have learned that in the past that trying to automatically grade candidates on such challenges biases their ap…

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    Comment #20832174

    Agreed. Data Science is a very broad term. The challenge is designed for Data Scientists. We are trying to target all experience levels as of now through a screening/take-home test…

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    Comment #20832082

    ska, our aim with the challenge was to allow candidates to not be biased by a fixed outcome and try to solve the problem as they would solve any real data science problem. This mea…

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    Comment #20831938

    That is correct. We had to reduce the time duration to be able to handle the traffic. We recommend 90mins for this challenge. What do you think would the right amount of time for t…

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    Comment #20831841

    @soVeryTired, the challenge showcased in the test does involve a lot of wrangling, handling missing data points, spotting bias and identifying the right features for the regression…