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The Poles Apart Interview Question
Physics Math Engineering Tech
1 day ago 2.9K views 0 shares
The Poles Apart Interview Question
The moment you realize this isn't about geography at all but a classic catenary curve problem that haunts physics students everywhere! That innocent-looking cable with its 80m length, suspended between two 50m poles with a 10m sag is basically asking "how good are you at the Pythagorean theorem's evil cousin?" The true distance between poles isn't just handed to you—you've gotta earn it through calculus and tears. Nothing says "we want someone who solves problems under pressure" like disguising a differential equation as a simple distance question. Tech interviews: where your ability to calculate the horizontal distance between two poles determines if you can manage a warehouse inventory system.

Proof Left As An Exercise For The Reader
Math Academia
2 days ago 2.9K views 0 shares
Proof Left As An Exercise For The Reader
The perfect encapsulation of why math textbooks are simultaneously brilliant and infuriating. The interview candidate with zero teaching experience gets hired immediately because they've mastered the dark art of saying "the answer is left as an exercise for the interviewer." That's literally the foundation of every math textbook ever published. Just when you need the solution most, the author abandons you with that dreaded phrase. It's like a chef giving you all the ingredients but refusing to tell you the cooking temperature.

Machine Learning At Its Finest
Ai Tech
24 days ago 6.1K views 0 shares
Machine Learning At Its Finest
The perfect illustration of machine learning in its natural habitat! Our protagonist claims ML as their strength, then immediately demonstrates how it actually works—getting the first answer wrong, then blindly repeating the "correct" answer regardless of the new input. This isn't just a coding joke; it's an existential crisis for anyone who's ever built a model that confidently produces nonsense. The algorithm has spoken: 6+9=15, therefore 4+20=15. The math is wrong, but the confidence is unwavering. Just like 90% of the ML models currently running in production somewhere.

The Ethical Chemistry Paradox
Chemistry Science
28 days ago 4.9K views 0 shares
The Ethical Chemistry Paradox
Oh the sweet, sweet irony of corporate ethics! This meme perfectly captures the chemical industry's version of "do as I say, not as I do." Turning down a defense job gets you instantly hired at Petrochemicals LLC because CLEARLY you have the moral flexibility they're looking for! It's like saying "I won't make explosives for the military, but making chemicals that might accidentally turn frogs into mutants? Sign me up!" The ethical requirements were just a test to see if you'd lie convincingly! 🧪💼

Be Sure To Put This On Your Resume
Academia Science Research
1 month ago 5.8K views 0 shares
Be Sure To Put This On Your Resume
The graduating class of 2020 has the ultimate interview flex! "Tell me about a difficult challenge?" *laughs maniacally* "Well, my entire academic career transformed into a digital hellscape overnight! I defended my thesis while my cat knocked over my laptop, synthesized compounds in my kitchen sink, and conducted field research via Google Earth!" The pandemic turned science education into a chaotic experiment where students were both the researchers AND the test subjects. Talk about baptism by viral fire!

The Ultimate Engineering Interview Challenge
Engineering Tech
1 month ago 5.6K views 0 shares
The Ultimate Engineering Interview Challenge
Welcome to the most diabolical engineering interview ever! Poor job candidate walks in expecting pleasantries but instead gets handed a pile of random parts and told "Make a chair and have a seat." Classic engineering mindset - why buy furniture when you can build it from scratch? The interviewer isn't testing your resume... he's testing if you can transform chaos into something that won't collapse under your buttocks! Engineers don't just solve problems - they get handed impossible puzzles and are expected to MacGyver their way to glory. Next interview challenge: "Build a working smartphone using only paperclips and your tears of frustration."

My Biggest Strength Too
Ai Tech Science Math
1 month ago 10.9K views 0 shares
My Biggest Strength Too
The beautiful irony of claiming machine learning as your strength while demonstrating exactly how it fails. First you give a completely wrong answer (0 instead of 15), then after being corrected, you stubbornly repeat "It's 15" regardless of the actual question. Congratulations, you've perfectly replicated how machine learning models work—they don't actually understand math, they just pattern-match previous inputs and outputs with zero comprehension. Next time someone tells you AI will take all our jobs, show them this and remind them that computers are still basically fancy rocks we tricked into thinking.