the author seems to be in the business of creating fairly simple internet apps, so I'm not sure why his interviews would ever need to deal with the implementation of hash tables...
the vast majority of German apprenticeships are not in traditional industrial roles or trades like plumbing. the existence of quality post-school training opportunities has little to do with the existence of a strong manufacturing sector.
the UK system is an extremely poor version of the German system. To implement an apprenticeship model, the state HAS to take direct control over the hiring of almost all entry level employees. otherwise the incentives and work culture is simply not in place for a large number of meaningful training opportunities to exist.
the ability to do all those things without having to work at the same time is a real luxury. it is certainly a nice thing to do, but someone (you or the state) has to pay for it, so the costs and benefits of different types of education/training still have to be considered.
Most people reading this site are not doing machine learning or advanced technical work. The day to day work of the vast majority of programmers does not require completion of advanced formal education (or the self taught equivalent).
Even then it is not actually that hard to learn about principal components or matrix regularization if you have some mathematical background and the desire to teach yourself...
is there any well known data/studies on selection methods for programmers?
I can understand the reasons why not to use algo problems as a filter, but I would have thought simpler forms of intelligence testing would still be quite useful.
depending on your area of specialization, microeconomics and game theory are no less bogus than DSGEs. MWG, for example, does not mention real world data once...
When someone trots out the same old "multiple intelligences" line, that is a pretty good indicator of their intelligence. or at least their intellectual laziness.
Citation needed for the claim that IQ tests are highly game-able. And nobody denies that there are different types of mental abiltiy, so I'm not sure who or what you are trying to argue against.
two big problems:
1) most people have a limited ability to make good decisions about policy.
2) the framing and presentation of the issues will have a large effect on how they are perceieved
do you know if there have been any attempts to solve other perhaps simpler forms of poker? in particular, five card draw seems like it could be "solved"...
The University of London offers full distance learning degree courses. They don't offer very much in the way of support but they are cheap and reputable. See: http://www.londoninternational.ac.uk/
I think it is quite obviously implied that Chomsky's understanding of all his examples is quite shallow and that they are being used mainly to add weight to a predetermined world view. falkenstein's point is that it is almost impossible to understand such a variety of examples in real depth and it is also unlikely that Chomsky himself is using them all correctly. To dismiss this criticism as simply an acceptance of "lazy reading" seems a little naive.
You don't need to go to university to learn computer science. That's something you can easily teach yourself using a book and/or the many freely available resources on the internet!
Then you should not hire them again! The quality is very poor. There are many grammatical mistakes and the style is quite clunky. It makes your company seem a lot less professional.
It is not actually very clear how much difference a student's school makes. Going to a private school on its own does not help with university admissions (if anything, it makes it more difficult). The superior quality of private education might improve the grades of lesser able but richer students, but there is still the ever present problem of accurately separating the effect of school type to educational achievement from the effects of family background/expectations/genetic inheritance...