interview questions

Gerry Quinn · 07 Jan 2011, 17:10 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: gerryq at indigo.ie (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 17:10:08 -0000
Subject: (urth) interview questions
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From: "Lee Berman" <severiansola at hotmail.com>
> The relaxation engineering priniciple being discussed is a good example. 
> My own education in
> engineering is limited to biological applications and my own experience in 
> dealing with it
> in regard to irregular objects involved successive attempts at perfection 
> in measurement.

They are successive attempts at simulation, not measurement.


> I am willing to defer to those who understand engineering better than I do 
> and accept that
> reference as pertaining to the lack of progress toward perfection in 
> cloning rather than a
> succession toward perfection in imitation. My own education prejudiced me 
> toward what seems to be
> an errant interpretation.

It does not pertain to lack of progress towards perfection.  It pertains to 
'progress' towards a static solution.

(In truth, it is not a terribly helpful analogy IMO, and lends itself to 
misinterpretation.)

- Gerry Quinn
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