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  1. 1Top k frequent elementsMediumCoding· Amazon, Apple
  2. 2If a competitor introduces a new feature, excluding user feedback and engagement metrics, what other data sources would you analyze to decide on developing a similar feature?MediumData· SAP
  3. 3Design a system capable of identifying ships that deviate from their course using a dataset that tracks ship positions, recorded as tuples containing (ship_ID, x, y, z, timestamp), with irregular timestamp intervals.MediumSystem design· SAP
  4. 4Modify this PyTorch pseudo-code to perform negative sampling if the pos_ids are known: label #shape=[batch_s, pos_ids] hidden #shape=[batch_s, ch] logits #shape=[ch, C] out=np.dot(logits, hidden(X)) #shape=[batch_s, C] loss=cross_entropy(out, label)MediumProduct· SAP
  5. 5What's your favorite product and why?MediumProduct· Accenture, Amazon