leonid AMA v2

[leonid]

It's 2014, so let's try this again

EDIT: No google-related questions please. I'm leonid, not a google representative

[choof]

do you enjoy your job at google
and don't sidestep this question by saying something like "it's the only thing i'm good at," i mean do you actually enjoy your work

[leonid]

It's more overwhelming than enjoyable, and it's because of my highly competent coworkers, not because of the actual work.

Also it's the only thing I'm good at

[justaguy]

you made a 2nd ama

lol

[choof]

Originally Posted by leonid

It's more overwhelming than enjoyable, and it's because of my highly competent coworkers, not because of the actual work.

Also it's the only thing I'm good at

have you tried moving to different areas internally? are you even able to do that?

also I can't remember if I've asked but is google's cafeteria better than vmware's

[Reincarnate]

the shitty thing about working at google is that from that point on, any time people talk to you, it's about google

[Zapmeister]

You're playing poker with a tiger, an octopus, a chinchilla, a stegosaurus, and a protozoan. You're holding Qs Qc and the flop is 3c 3s 9c. The tiger starts giggling to itself and rolling around on its back and being generally cheeky and bets 3 times the minimum. The octopus folds. The chinchilla is completely emotionless and very slowly moves enough chips into the pot to call. The stegosaurus moves its tail around a little bit back and forth and goes all-in for 9 times the minimum. The protozoan already folded preflop. Do you fold, call, raise, or run screaming?

How good would you say you were at the sort of crappy pop culture questions that get asked on trashy quiz shows labelled as "general knowledge"?

Suppose hypothetically you rescue some random guy from inside a burning building, and he is immensely grateful to you for saving his life, but you did it in such an unnecessarily overdramatic and cliché-laden manner that everyone watching you do it thought you were being filmed as part of a movie or something, so they didn't step in to help you. Within less than 3 days, Pizza Hut shuts down all of its branches in Nicaragua. How are these two events related?

Using the method of steepest descent you can show that as x -> infinity, the integral from 0 to 1 of exp(ix(t+t^2))/sqrt(t) dt goes asymptotically like A/sqrt(x) + B exp(2ix)/x. What are the values of the constants A and B?

[leonid]

Originally Posted by Reincarnate

the shitty thing about working at google is that from that point on, any time people talk to you, it's about google

I don't talk away where I work at unless I have to for that reason

That said, I'm gonna stop accepting google related questions

[choof]

Originally Posted by Reincarnate

the shitty thing about working at google is that from that point on, any time people talk to you, it's about google

oops you're right uh

why didn't we grab lunch while i was in cali

[leonid]

Well I'm not a prophet that knows where everyone is

[One Winged Angel]

how often do you shave, you seem like the kind of person that doesn't need to shave often

and by 'kind of person' i mean korean

[leonid]

Originally Posted by Zapmeister

You're playing poker with a tiger, an octopus, a chinchilla, a stegosaurus, and a protozoan. You're holding Qs Qc and the flop is 3c 3s 9c. The tiger starts giggling to itself and rolling around on its back and being generally cheeky and bets 3 times the minimum. The octopus folds. The chinchilla is completely emotionless and very slowly moves enough chips into the pot to call. The stegosaurus moves its tail around a little bit back and forth and goes all-in for 9 times the minimum. The protozoan already folded preflop. Do you fold, call, raise, or run screaming?
I had the same question in V1 thread

How good would you say you were at the sort of crappy pop culture questions that get asked on trashy quiz shows labelled as "general knowledge"?
I can get them right with the probability of 25% if I'm given 4 choices

Suppose hypothetically you rescue some random guy from inside a burning building, and he is immensely grateful to you for saving his life, but you did it in such an unnecessarily overdramatic and cliché-laden manner that everyone watching you do it thought you were being filmed as part of a movie or something, so they didn't step in to help you. Within less than 3 days, Pizza Hut shuts down all of its branches in Nicaragua. How are these two events related?
The guy I rescued is the CEO of Pizza Hut and he's moving all of the branches in Nicaragua to Mountain View for me

Using the method of steepest descent you can show that as x -> infinity, the integral from 0 to 1 of exp(ix(t+t^2))/sqrt(t) dt goes asymptotically like A/sqrt(x) + B exp(2ix)/x. What are the values of the constants A and B?

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[leonid]

Originally Posted by One Winged Angel

how often do you shave, you seem like the kind of person that doesn't need to shave often

and by 'kind of person' i mean korean

Once every week I think. Only facial hairs. I never have to shave my arms/legs/etc

[choof]

i think i told you i was in mountain view like a week after i got there but o well

howd you learn about stepmania?

[leonid]

Originally Posted by choof

howd you learn about stepmania?

BMS and other o2jam-like games were the only PC rhythm game I played until 2008.
That was when I moved to US with a newly bought macbook pro.
Soon I realized I could not run any of the rhythm games on mac, so I looked for browser-based rhythm game and naturally stumbled upon FFR.

It's hard to not learn about stepmania while in FFR forums.

[Reincarnate]

What kind of food do you typically enjoy / what restaurants do you like?

[L.B.D.D]

do u have a girlfrend

[leonid]

Originally Posted by Reincarnate

What kind of food do you typically enjoy / what restaurants do you like?

Thai, Vietnamese, and generally anything that comes with noodles

Originally Posted by L.B.D.D

do u have a girlfrend

I did

[L.B.D.D]

what is your opinion on

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