What is a technical assessment platform? Features, benefits, and choices for 2025
With pressure mounting to move fast, reduce bias, and prove ROI on every new technical hire, traditional screening methods no longer cut it for companies that want to maintain a competitive hiring edge. Fortunately, technical assessment platforms and tools provide smarter, more objective ways to identify top developers. Even before
Read moreApproximation of Inverse, Inverse of Approximation
“The inverse of an approximation is an approximation of the inverse.” This statement is either obvious or really clever. Maybe both. Logs and exponents Let’s start with an example. For moderately small x, That means that near 1 (i.e. near 10 raised to a small number, The inverse of a
Read moreStack Exchange knowledge is for everyone (and now available on Snowflake Marketplace)
Snowflake customers can now easily enrich their AI applications and agentic systems with some of the most trusted, highest-quality data available while respecting our community members who provide this content with proper attribution.
Read moreIn a deterministic simulation, you can debug with time travel
Will Wilson, CEO and co-founder of Antithesis, joins Ryan and Stack Overflow senior director of engineering Ben Matthews on the podcast to discuss deterministic simulation testing, the pitfalls of chaos testing in an AI-driven world, and how testing can help developers deal with technical debt.
Read more7 Codility alternatives for developer and technical assessments in 2025
Last year, 78% of tech leaders reported their struggles with finding and hiring skilled candidates for the right roles. A “messy” hiring process can be frustrating, especially if you’re short on time and resources to make the right offer. As the race for top-tier developers gets even faster, teams are
Read moreFalse witnesses
Fermat’s little theorem says that if p is a prime and a is not a multiple of p, then ap−1 = 1 (mod p). The contrapositive of Fermat’s little theorem says if ap−1 ≠ 1 (mod p) then either p is not prime or a is a multiple of p. The contrapositive is used to test whether a number is prime. Pick a
Read moreChris’ Corner: Type Stuff!
Let’s do typography stuff! Video: “A live demo by me of early font editors on a real Macintosh Plus” by Mark Simonson Font: “Is this font easy for you to read? Good—that’s the idea.” Hyperlegible is the name of the font, designed for people with low vision. Technique: “Fluid typography
Read moreIntegrating AI agents: Navigating challenges, ensuring security, and driving adoption
Positioned at the intersection of automation, decision intelligence, and data orchestration, AI agents are quickly emerging as essential tools for aligning business outcomes with technical workflows.
Read moreHouston’s long term planning
When I hear American cities criticized for lack of long-term planning, my initial thought is that this is a good thing because the future cannot be predicted or directed very far in advance, and cities should be allowed to grow organically. Houston, in particular, is subject to a lot of
Read moreGardener’s ellipse
There are several ways to define an ellipse. If you want to write software draw an ellipse, it’s most convenient to have a parametric form: This gives an ellipse centered at (h, k), with semi-major axis a, semi-minor axis b, and with the major axis rotated by an angle θ
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