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autogeneity · 29 days

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so the data science company that previously accidentally considered me for a software engineering role sent me a new challenge to complete for the data science role...

except the challenge they sent me last time also involved data science work

...and this one seems about a million times easier?

I am so nervous that I'm somehow doing it completely wrong because all I really did was fit a curve (quadratic) (simple regression) and then chucked the data in a graph and applied dijkstra. whereas last time I spent days looking at complicated statistical models?

I feel like this can't be right and yet. I can't see where I might be wrong. both my steps and my results make sense.

#I'm still extremely confused why they had me predicting covid cases for a software engineering role. so ???#if anything surely path optimization is closer to software engineering?#maybe they are confused again. fucking hell #also the instructions are like #'you can use any optimisation method provided it runs in a reasonable amount of time (less than 10 mins on standard hardware)'#...mine runs in like. 3. max. probably less I didn't measure but.#most of which is calculating all the cost values the actual optimizing is like seconds #soooo uhhh I have questions #m

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