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Re: Fizz Buzz in Tensorflow

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Post by curiousgal » Wed, May 25, 2016, 9:15 AM UTC

gnaritas wrote: post #65

gokhan wrote: post #28

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This is not over-engineering. Defining a couple of functions to solve it would be over-engineering, like offloading Fizz to it's own function, Buzz to another one etc. Anything (deliberately) more is just comedy.

Training a neural network to solve fizzbuzz is over-engineering, fun over-engineering, but over-engineering none the less.

Depends on the position no? If you are looking for a developer sure. But if you are looking for an engineer, creative solutions are a plus.

Re: Fizz Buzz in Tensorflow

#82

Post by _navaneethan » Wed, May 25, 2016, 10:45 AM UTC

   >>> for i in range(1,101): print "FizzBuzz"[i*i%3*4:8--i**4%5] or i

The above line cost your interview :) He might be expecting like this one

Re: Fizz Buzz in Tensorflow

#83

Post by jawilson2 » Wed, May 25, 2016, 12:22 PM UTC

Bahamut wrote: post #43

gnaritas wrote: post #23

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If that were a real situation, I wouldn't have, he over-engineered the shit out of it and while cool, I prefer devs who can solve simple problems simply; they get more work done for the price.

Well, when you give a hilariously bad interview question...

Yeah, hopefully this kind of question is handled in a phone screen before bringing them in.

Re: Fizz Buzz in Tensorflow

#84

Post by jedberg » Thu, May 26, 2016, 5:47 AM UTC

alimw wrote: post #76

wrsh07 wrote: post #74

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One of my friends failed an interview out of college where they asked him fizz buzz, and [using python] he created an array [list(range(1,101))] and then overwrote multiples of 3 with "fizz" multiples of 5 with "buzz" and multiples of 15 with "fizzbuzz." Because it was an unconventional solution, the interviewer didn't like it.

That's exactly how I'd do it! What's supposed to be the better way? Modulo/division by three and five?

    for x in xrange(1,101):
        if not x % 3:
            print "Fizz",
        if not x % 5:
            print "Buzz",
        if (x % 3) and (x % 5):
            print x
        else:
            print ""

Re: Fizz Buzz in Tensorflow

#85

Post by SZJX » Thu, Jun 02, 2016, 1:02 AM UTC

vonmoltke wrote: post #73

ci5er wrote: post #61

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> nor representative of Java as used outside enterprise development. It isn't? I've turned down a couple of sweet gigs, at times when I really needed the comfort of work-group structure and maybe even a pay check, because I assumed that (based on my reading) it was all like that. I knew from history, back in the days when it was called Oak that it was a pretty delightful language. Then WS-* and Enterprise OO happened…

I write NLP software in Java and we don't have any of that crap. We have had a couple devs pass through from that world, but we have largely avoided any of the architecture astronaut crap that plagues enterprise development. It's a shame that the name "Java" has become synonymous with it, since it really isn't a bad language (as of Java 7, at least).

Why is Java 8 even worse though? It supposedly introduces several mechanisms to reduce redundancy?