Spins Interview Question for Software Engineers


Country: United States
Interview Type: Phone Interview




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check out the reservoir sampling

Cheers and Good luck

- Anonymous July 16, 2015 | Flag Reply
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Good to know, thanks!

- Yev July 16, 2015 | Flag
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reservoir sampling

- SK July 16, 2015 | Flag Reply
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My closest answer, in the 15 or so mins left, is follows:

1. Get a psuedo-random positive integer
2. Check if it's even. If so, replace in a stored array. Otherwise, skip.

Interviewer said this was better than my first approach of using the number-modulus-k to store into the array where the last int has 100% prob of being sampled. He said each number has 50% chance, which seemed uniformly random, but not ideal in all cases.

- Yev July 16, 2015 | Flag


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