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What is the __enter__ special method for in Python?
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Does a Python function call pass arguments by value, as in Java?
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In SQL, select the second largest entry within each category.
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In kdb, compare a string with a symbol. How does a string column (type C) differ in memory from a symbol column?
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Explain how a kdb database works.
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Explain Python garbage collection and reference counting. After a = [..], b = a, and then b is rebound to something else, what is a?
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In a Llama 3.2 attention block the query and output projections map 3072 features to 3072, but the key and value projections map 3072 to 1024. Why are those two narrower?
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Financial text often covers several companies at once. How would you find the main companies, extract the passages about each, and strip boilerplate?
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Given a company's financial texts T1..Tn over time, how would you tell whether each one adds new information, and how would you predict next quarter's sales from them?
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Is a random forest a bagging method or a boosting method?
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You fit a linear regression by OLS and the errors are serially correlated. What effect does that have on the results?
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Design a fast, growable Array<T> whose elements never change address once created, where at(index) creates a zero-initialised element on first access.
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Design a SmartString class template whose only storage is a char array of STORAGE_SIZE bytes, with constant-time length() and a null-terminated c_str().
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What is the enter special method for in Python?

Does a Python function call pass arguments by value, as in Java?

In SQL, select the second largest entry within each category.

In kdb, compare a string with a symbol. How does a string column (type C) differ in memory from a symbol column?

Explain how a kdb database works.

Explain Python garbage collection and reference counting. After a = [..], b = a, and then b is rebound to something else, what is a?

In a Llama 3.2 attention block the query and output projections map 3072 features to 3072, but the key and value projections map 3072 to 1024. Why are those two narrower?

Financial text often covers several companies at once. How would you find the main companies, extract the passages about each, and strip boilerplate?

Given a company's financial texts T1..Tn over time, how would you tell whether each one adds new information, and how would you predict next quarter's sales from them?

Is a random forest a bagging method or a boosting method?

You fit a linear regression by OLS and the errors are serially correlated. What effect does that have on the results?

Design a fast, growable Array<T> whose elements never change address once created, where at(index) creates a zero-initialised element on first access.

Design a SmartString class template whose only storage is a char array of STORAGE_SIZE bytes, with constant-time length() and a null-terminated c_str().

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