Concept Interview Questions

Sue G. - "In Java, GC is the process of automatically identifying and reclaming memory occupied by objects that are no longer reachable.. the process involves the 3 steps Mark phase -- identify the objects that are still in use. i.e reachable sweep Phase -- removes the unreachable objects compact phase -- rearragnes objects to prevent fragmentation 4 types of Garbage collection Serial GC -- single threaded simple and compacting -- best for small applications Parrallel GC -- throughput GC"See full answer

Alan T. - "The difference between convex and nonconvex functions lies in their mathematical properties and the implications for optimization problems. Convex Functions:A convex function has a shape where any line segment connecting two points on its graph lies entirely above or on the graph. This property ensures that any local minimum is also a global minimum, making optimization straightforward and reliable. Convex functions are critical in machine learning and optimization tasks because of th"See full answer

Satyam C. - "TF-IDF CONCEPT EXPLANATION AND INTUITION BUILDING: TF-IDF is a measure that reflects the importance of a word in the document relative to a collection of documents. Its full form is Term Frequency - Inverse Document Frequency. The term TF indicates how often a term occurs in a particular document. It is the ratio of count of a particular term in a document to the number of terms in that particular document. So, the intuition is that if a term occurs frequently in a single documen"See full answer

T I. - "Idempotence refers to the property that the same request multiple times produces the same result on the server side. No matter how many times I repeat the request, the server state does not change after the first request. This concept is important to ensure consistency, especially in systems where requests may be repeated due to network failures or other problems. Let's take a look at different HTTP methods for a clearer understanding. GET: By definition, GET requests must be powerless. Execut"See full answer

1036 loknadh R. - "No ,MSE is suitable for only regression modes. Although the logistic regression in Its name has regression , but it is a classification problem so MSE is not suitable for classification models like logistic regression."See full answer

Exponent - "This is a Measure Success question with a slight twist. The twist here is we need to consider a hypothetical product rather that one already built. This changes our formula slightly - specifically we may not be able to apply a UX flow to drive analysis since we're unsure of the implementation. Instead, we'll look at core behaviors that are indicative of success. Here's the modified formula: Ask clarifying questions State the goal of the feature **Apply a UX flow to drive a"See full answer

Lash - "A perceptron is the most basic building block of a neural network and represents a single-layer binary classifier."See full answer

Matt M. - "Given the dataset does not contain many labels, it implies we cannot directly use supervised learning. I would ask more about the type of dataset we are given. Is it images, text, etc? This may inform the types of transformations we do the dataset. I can see two approaches to training Given the labels we do have, we can find a method to generate labels for the other unlabeled data. This likely will introduce some error since they may not be true labels, but it at least allows processing the"See full answer

Shibin P. - "Effective loss functions for computer vision models vary depending on the specific task, some commonly used loss functions for different tasks: Classification Cross-Entropy Loss:Used for multi-class classification tasks. Measures the difference between the predicted probability distribution and the true distribution. Binary Cross-Entropy Loss:Used for binary classification tasks. Evaluates the performance of a model by comparing predicted probabilities to the true binary labe"See full answer

Sri V. - "Switching from a linear kernel to RBF / Gaussian kernel is likely to result in overfitting the model. It is a move that adds complexity to the mix, and if the data doesn't need that sort of complexity, it would result in overfitting. On the other hand, all the other three approaches would only try too reduce complexity in the process, thereby doesn't contribute to overfitting the model."See full answer