Loud in Tech

Challenging Tech's Traditions - The Wrong Questions in Interviews, Mental Health Crisis and Decoding QR Codes Without Cameras


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On today's episode of Loud in Tech, we discuss the importance of collaborative problem-solving skills during job interviews, in an article by Nilofer Merchant for Harvard Business Review. We also cover the Howard County Public School System in Maryland suing popular social media platforms - Meta, Google, Snapchat, and TikTok's parent company ByteDance - for allegedly contributing to a mental health crisis among students. Additionally, Red Hat's decision to discontinue support for LibreOffice on future versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and a guide on how to manually decode small QR codes. We also touch on a paper titled "Brainformers: Trading Simplicity for Efficiency" exploring design choices for transformers in deep learning models, and recent research that suggests brain stimulation during sleep can improve memory consolidation, which is useful in treating patients with memory disorders like Alzheimer's.
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Loud in TechBy Barada Sahu