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Sir Roger Penrose, winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in physics, believes that human understanding goes beyond mere rule following. In addition to our ability for logical thought (rule following), we also have the capacity for insight or intuition. Since a computer program merely follows a set of rules (like it does during a game of chess), then, according to Penrose, a computer (as it currently exists anyway) can never have the quality of understanding in the same way a human can. Do you agree or disagree? Explain.
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Senior Backend (PHP) Product Engineer

Interviewed at Chess.com

4.1★
Jan 31, 2024

Sir Roger Penrose, winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in physics, believes that human understanding goes beyond mere rule following. In addition to our ability for logical thought (rule following), we also have the capacity for insight or intuition. Since a computer program merely follows a set of rules (like it does during a game of chess), then, according to Penrose, a computer (as it currently exists anyway) can never have the quality of understanding in the same way a human can. Do you agree or disagree? Explain.

Technical interview: Implement web service exposing POST request for processing TXT (why? read the GET request...). And, implement GET request to retrieve the number of occurrences for given word (as a param in the GET request) from the provided TXT file in the former POST request.
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Senior Backend Engineer

Interviewed at Lemonade Insurance

3.5★
Feb 13, 2024

Technical interview: Implement web service exposing POST request for processing TXT (why? read the GET request...). And, implement GET request to retrieve the number of occurrences for given word (as a param in the GET request) from the provided TXT file in the former POST request.

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