Description
PyData Chicago 2016
Fizz Buzz is a ubiquitous, nearly trivial problem used to weed out developer job applicants. Recently I wrote a joking-not-joking blog post about a fictional interviewee who solves it using neural networks. After the blog post went viral, I spent a lot of time thinking about Fizz Buzz as a machine learning problem. It turns out it's surprisingly interesting and subtle! I'll talk about how and why.