[extropy-chat] GOOGLE: innovative recruiting technique

[Mike Lorrey]

Cause that isn't the right answer, it turns out.

Doing the right googling will turn up the answer and the answer to the
second problem as well...

While they surely wanted to increase their signal to noise ratio, I'm
also wondering if they wanted to advertise the use of google for such
filtering, or wanted people to use google to dig up the answers... I
suppose there is something to be said for not reinventing the wheel.

http://www.mkaz.com/math/google/

This site has the right answers, for which the author did the grunt
work.

--- Patrick Wilken <Patrick.Wilken at Nat.Uni-Magdeburg.DE> wrote:

> My quick search only came up with this:
> 
> http://216.239.59.57/
> 
> which gives a 502 error to Google...
> 
> best, patrick
> 
> 
> On 16 Sep 2004, at 18:28, Adrian Tymes wrote:
> 
> > --- Mike Lorrey <mlorrey at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=3916173
> >>
> >> A billboard in Boston says "{the first 10 digit
> >> prime found in
> >> consecutive digits of e}.com" The answer to the
> >> problem is an IP
> >> address to a site that asks another problem, and so
> >> on until the smart
> >> problem solver is asked for his or her resume....
> >>
> >> Apparently we don't have to show our work on these
> >> problems. Anybody
> >> want to collaborate? ;)
> >>
> >> To figure out this problem, you first need a list of
> >> all 10 digit
> >> primes. Then you take e and make 10 digit chunks of
> >> it, incremented one
> >> digit at a time, then compare.
> >
> > They had this billboard up in Silicon Valley a while
> > ago.  For something like this, someone else has solved
> > the problem and posted the solution to the Web - so
> > you can simply google for the final answer (the page
> > which asks for your resume).
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Mike Lorrey
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It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                         -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
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