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C3 AIData Scientist · Technical Screen · Aug 2026

Problem Solving How would you predict the amount of food to keep in storage? This was a fairly basic data science case. ML / Algorithms Bias-variance tradeoff Curse of dimensionality Bagging versus boosting PCA Autoencoders Gradient descent How to keep gradient descent from getting stuck in a local minimum How to evaluate RAG Transformers versus RNNs How to calculate the complexity of attention s…

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