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I have a standard 52 card deck. One by one, I draw cards from the deck and place them face up in front of you (without putting them back). At any point, you may stop me and say a color. If the next two cards I draw both have that color, you win. Otherwise, you lose. What is the optimal strategy?
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Quantitative Research Intern

Interviewed at Jane Street

4.4
Oct 30, 2018

I have a standard 52 card deck. One by one, I draw cards from the deck and place them face up in front of you (without putting them back). At any point, you may stop me and say a color. If the next two cards I draw both have that color, you win. Otherwise, you lose. What is the optimal strategy?

Tell me about yourself (followed up with details about your projects) What happens if you initialize the weights of a neural network to zero? What happens to the estimators of linear regression if you double the dataset? What is ridge regression? How do you sample points uniformly from a circle? How do you sample points uniformly from a sphere? Leetcode medium DP problem (jump game)
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Quantitative Researcher

Interviewed at Citadel

4
Sep 20, 2021

Tell me about yourself (followed up with details about your projects) What happens if you initialize the weights of a neural network to zero? What happens to the estimators of linear regression if you double the dataset? What is ridge regression? How do you sample points uniformly from a circle? How do you sample points uniformly from a sphere? Leetcode medium DP problem (jump game)

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