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Just curious to see what people like to see in a job description for software engineers. I've looked at a bunch of different templates from places like linkedin and indeed, but I don't feel like those are likely to connect with a potential candidate; They might have sufficient information, but they're (naturall) generic.

Does anyone know of a way to get better recommendations from youtube? I do use the 'not interested' button to provide feedback, but it is a bit of a blunt instrument and doesn't provide any real scope for indicating why I don't want to view it.

I have been using a keyboard for a long time, but I struggle to type accurately. I am more a 'touch-typer' than a 'hunt-and-pecker' but my accuracy is poor. There are two particular times when I find this frustrating. I work on the command line quite a bit, and invariably I will make a mistake and the command doesn't work. Correct it, but make another mistake. Again it doesn't work. I could slow down, and that helps, but at times it is frustrating. Also, it makes using slack/irc/etc frustrating because most of the time my sentences contain some mistake that makes me sound like I am struggling with the language when I am a native speaker!

I know that it sounds like a should simple do more touch typing practice, and maybe that is the answer, but the problem is that when I do exercises online I actually have pretty good accuracy. That includes typing practice in code and not just English. I am hoping that some of you might have suggestions or ideas that I have not thought of.

(you have no idea how many times I hit backspace while writing this!)

As the question states, does anyone know of a style guide on how to represent different kinds of objects in ascii for documentation? By objects I mean things like boxes, networks, axes... anything like that.

Hi,

There seem to be a whole lot of platforms out there to do collaborative coding interview online. Many seem to look essentially the same: left side an editor, right side a terminal, and a green 'run' button to build (if necessary) and execute. Supporting audio and video is a bug plus. But I haven't found any that allow you to include things like supporting code or datafiles. I want to give candidates a chance to show how they work in a more realistic environment rather than transferring classic whiteboard problems on a new platform. Part of that, for me, involves providing some support code that they may or may not have the source code for.

Any suggestions welcomed!

Hi,

I have been interested in better understanding the belief propagation algorithm for a while. There are some good resources out there but nothing has really filled in all the details for me. I guess the thing that I would really like to better understand is how this would be implemented in code. Christopher Bishop has a good explanation of how it works in his book 'pattern recognition and machine learning' but I can't quite wrap my head around the notion of passing functions as messages. One thing I am not sure of: is this message passing of functions merely descriptive or is that what you explicitly need to do?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

I need to put together a contract for some software development that I am going to be doing, and I was wondering if anyone could recommend a template they have used or a website that has good templates to choose from?

I want to create a business that will allow me to do mathematics and software development. Now, I know that is too broad. It encompasses so much possibility that it is almost meaningless. So I want to identify a more specific area, e.g. machine learning or simulation, that gives a potential client a better idea of what the business can do.

But I am having difficulty in identifying which specific areas or terms to use. I think the problem is that I am putting the cart before the horse -- that I need to identify a need in a particular market in order to know what kinds of math and software businesses would find useful. But I'm not sure how to do that. How do you figure out what needs or wants a business has? I know this is pretty elementary marketing but I really have no idea what the first step in such a process would be.

Any help or advice is greatly appreciated.

I am trying to get started with the ARM compute library. There is plenty of auto-generated documentation but I have not been able to find anything that is aimed at understanding how all the parts of the library are supposed to fit together.

Does anyone have any experience of advice for using the ARM compute library?

The algorithm design manual is really nice in that it provides a mapping from problems to algorithmic approaches. I was wondering if there is something similar, specifically, for machine learning problems.