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Several random variables all have the same pairwise correlation rho. What values can rho take, for three variables and for n variables?
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Of 1000 coins, one is double-headed and the rest are fair. You pick one at random, flip it 10 times and see 10 heads. What is the probability it is the double-headed coin?
11 hours ago
Take-home challenge: test whether a given signal can predict the S&P 500.
11 hours ago
What is the difference between a random forest and gradient boosting?
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What are L1 and L2 regularisation, and when would you use each?
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Which of the alphas you have worked on in the past do you find most interesting, and why?
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What does groupby do in pandas, and is there an alternative to it? How do you handle dates and times in pandas? What is self used for in a Python class?
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What is the largest number of knights that can be placed on a 64 x 64 chessboard so that no two knights attack each other?
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How do you tune a random forest and cross-validate it? How does a random forest compare with XGBoost, and why does ensembling help?
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Explain decision trees in detail.
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Why is kdb fast at processing financial data?
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Name the basic SQL keywords, then write a query that selects duplicate rows in a table.
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A self-driving training dataset has missing values because a radar or camera sometimes fails. How do you handle the missing data, and how do you compare different fixes?
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How do you implement subsampling in a random forest?
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How would you draw a random sample from 10 TB of data in Python?
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In SQL or Python, select the maximum price for each single name, then the k-th largest price for each single name.
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There are 1000 bottles and exactly one is poisoned. What is the minimum number of mice needed to find it, and how would you carry out the test?
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X and Y each take the values -1 and 1 with equal probability, and P(X = Y) = 0.5. What is corr(X, Y)?
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What is a Python decorator, and when would you use one?
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Several random variables all have the same pairwise correlation rho. What values can rho take, for three variables and for n variables?

Of 1000 coins, one is double-headed and the rest are fair. You pick one at random, flip it 10 times and see 10 heads. What is the probability it is the double-headed coin?

Take-home challenge: test whether a given signal can predict the S&P 500.

What is the difference between a random forest and gradient boosting?

What are L1 and L2 regularisation, and when would you use each?

What is your strategy, and what Sharpe ratio does it achieve?

Which of the alphas you have worked on in the past do you find most interesting, and why?

What does groupby do in pandas, and is there an alternative to it? How do you handle dates and times in pandas? What is self used for in a Python class?

What is the largest number of knights that can be placed on a 64 x 64 chessboard so that no two knights attack each other?

How do you tune a random forest and cross-validate it? How does a random forest compare with XGBoost, and why does ensembling help?

Explain decision trees in detail.

Why is kdb fast at processing financial data?

Name the basic SQL keywords, then write a query that selects duplicate rows in a table.

A self-driving training dataset has missing values because a radar or camera sometimes fails. How do you handle the missing data, and how do you compare different fixes?

How do you implement subsampling in a random forest?

How would you draw a random sample from 10 TB of data in Python?

In SQL or Python, select the maximum price for each single name, then the k-th largest price for each single name.

There are 1000 bottles and exactly one is poisoned. What is the minimum number of mice needed to find it, and how would you carry out the test?

X and Y each take the values -1 and 1 with equal probability, and P(X = Y) = 0.5. What is corr(X, Y)?

What is a Python decorator, and when would you use one?

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