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In fairness, I don't think the lack of Nobel prizes is a valid criticism here. The average time from discovery to a Nobel is close to 30 years at the moment and the Saudis built their first major research university (KAUST) in 2009 and their first university ever in 1961. Their economy started to grow after they got some control over their oil in 1972 so let's say a decade after that is when they could be expected to start spending to any significant degree on research. That only gives them roughly 40 years to get a Nobel which is not enough without systematic support from foreign governments and universities which was not there due to wars, politics, and some internal Saudi policies that limited their ability to attract experts and get access to the latest advanced technologies.

Square Kufic is easy to read for native readers when you add diacritical marks and keep the general order along a path. You'll often see words or phrases repeated or flipped to make cool geometric designs, which is easy to spot for native readers but often confusing for others.

The Reem Kufi font [0] is even easier to read and rather popular on trendy Arabic websites and publications.

[0] https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Reem+Kufi

Do you not see the logical link by which these more general studies contextualize and support my earlier statements?

I am not obliged to defend every statement I make with a study for my thoughts and experiences to be worth sharing. Also, anecdotal evidence is evidence. Not as generalizable as controlled studies but not as worthless as you seem to think.

In any case, I have done the five minutes of googling you seem to want. Biases in evaluating resumes based on gender and other such factors are not new nor unknown: here is an early study from 1986[1], 1988[2], 1999[3], 2001[4], 2007[5]. Feel free to visit google scholar and look more studies by yourself.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0022103186... [2] https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2F0022-3514.5... [3] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1018839203698 [4] https://spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/0022-4... [5] https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2006-23339-007

At least partly. When I was starting out, I would apply to dev positions only to get offers to interview for lower-paid QA positions. After changing to a gender-neutral nickname and removing all female-identifying terms from my resume, I got the interviews for dev positions.

I would argue that you are overestimating the help women used to get from extended families in terms of protection from abuse. That kind of life came along with rigid societal expectations, extremely limited economic opportunities for women, and harsh views on divorce.

Many cultures around the world still have such communities and they are worse on average for women.

As far as I know, in the US, the custody and house/apartment is almost always given to the parent who /wants/ the children. Men often don't fight for custody. They should.

Also, the division of assets is not out of proportion I think. If I got married and my partner left the workforce to take care of the home/children, I do think they should get their fair share of assets in case of divorce.

Inkscape with a Latex extension is the best tool for making scientific posters imo.

I was just about to comment about this because his description is textbook ADHD in girls.

Absolutely true. I am especially amazed by the confidence with which they present their claims.

The ugly apartment buildings you are seeing are probably one-plus-five buildings (one concrete + five wood floors) that are actually optimized for balancing zoning+codes+affordability for single-family apartments. At least theoretically, they should offer cheaper rent due to their much lower construction costs.

I think of the ugliness of the facades as a bonus that would drive wealthier people to other buildings once options open up a bit.

It is an obvious pattern known to anyone who visited or attended Eastern European or Middle Eastern universities.

Here is an example I saw recently: Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi is a STEM research-focused university and close to 60% of their students are female. They have no "soft" majors and most students have to achieve and maintain high performance to stay enrolled and get scholarships that cover their tuition or even give them stipends if they are in the top of their class. I saw female students happily working on robotics, FPGA designs, security CTFs, etc. They would be shocked to see how common it is to be the single woman in a classroom in other countries.

Edit: sentence clarity.

The author is a man. This is an article sharing his experiences driving drunk people very late at night, which tend to be older men because women and younger men tend to leave earlier.

I do not see this article as an attack on men. It is concerned with the behavior of a subset of people who are getting excessively drunk. And again, the author seems to want to share or "vent" about what he is experiencing. Maybe even encourage people to look at the situation and consider if something needs to be changed in terms of social expectations or bars policies.

As for the touching part, I don't see how it is hard to know that one must not touch others without their permission, regardless of gender. All humans have autonomy over their bodies and in exception of times of some emergency, consent has to be given either explicitly or implicitly. Unwanted touching is especially threatening to women because they are physically smaller and in more danger. Yes, not all men are a violent threat but _too many_ men are. Women need to play it safe. It might hurt your feelings, but it might save their lives.

Another angle that might matter for this as well, is that sometimes people "de-humanize" service workers such as drivers and treat them more like tools which is often evident in ignoring their personal space, time, and opinions.

Since this is a charged topic for you, take a moment to contextualize what you read and consider your biases or insecurities before making a judgement next time. The last decade has had so much unnecessary fraught discourse online that is not helping anybody but those who want to cause harm. The internet would be a better place if we all spend a bit more time to understand each other more.

Topological materials are relatively new and increasingly promising for both technological and pure science reasons.

Having to write a couple of paragraphs is not bad per se, just not sufficiently interesting on its own. some current referral systems already request reference letters and reward successful referrals.

It might be fun to try out a system with a limited number of referrals one can submit that rewards consistent good recommendations.

Perhaps a version without the payment aspect but with rewards would have been received better. Say a potential referrer would sign up and get three reference tokens (which expire) periodically. Then they can use one to support a person they know for a position. If the employee lasts for two months, they get two tokens and some monetary reward.

Honestly, the barrier of having to sign up to act as a reference for someone might be too much on its own. But, if they manage to get people with good professional networks participating it might be valuable.

...it saddens me how true that is given the last few years. I still like to think most people are capable of a deeper level of understanding.

Well, yeah, these models can not interact and observe the world to test the veracity of claims. They are language models and the target for them is text production. No one expects them to understand the universe.

My comment was in response to > GPT-3 is probably a better approach to knowledge processing

and the paper is relevant in that it shows the limitation of current language models in terms of logical consistency or measures of the quality of text sources. GPT-3 and other models are not trained for this and obviously they fail at the task. This is evidence against them being a "better approach to knowledge processing."

Even if we trained future models preferentially on the latest and most cited scientific papers, we will still have issues with conflicting claims and incorrect/fabricated results.

However, that does not mean that it would not be practically useful to figure out a way to include some checks or confidence estimates of truthfulness of model training data and responses. Perhaps just training the models to answer that they don't know when the training data is too conflicted would be useful enough.

The problem with models like GPT-3 is that they are unable to differentiate between information sources with different "trustworthiness." They learn conspiracies and wrong claims and repeat them.

It's possible to feed GPT-3 prompts that encourage it to respond with conspiracies (i.e. "who really caused 9/11?") but it also randomly responds to normal prompts with conspiracies/misinformation.

A recent paper[0] has looked into building a testing dataset for language models ability to distinguish truth from falsehood.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.07958

Not everyone is rich enough to also buy a desktop computer or have space for it? Not to mention that the hassle of duplicating software and data files between a laptop and a desktop is too much work for anyone who does not actually like to spend time on tech.

Every time someone tells me they liked "How to Win Friends and Influence People" without mentioning some reservations about the sexist and classist content, I think less well of them. I have yet to regret doing so.

I'm also curious, what has Title IX got to do with the rest? It has nothing to do with churches, does it?

I'm pleasantly surprised that these sculptures survived the centuries of intentional destruction of such artifacts in the region. The scratched(?) graffiti is disappointing though.

The decision of what gets added to such standards is largely a combination of politics and what is actively being used. Some companies and research labs wanted it to be added and they lobbied successfully for it.

This technology is already usable with many existing routers, though to a lesser degree. The standard is meant to define expectations of how the technology is implemented in future 'SENS' devices.

I guess it could be useful for AR/VR or replace Bluetooth in some location sensing applications (like in stores tracking movement patterns, or monitoring systems for dementia patients living alone).

I dislike how this additional privacy infraction is going to be the norm in a few years.

The quoted argument is too simplistic and ignores feedback processes that would prevent reaching the catastrophic prediction. We can't predict 400 years so flippantly.

The population will most definitely not continue to grow (in fact it will start to decrease slightly the more countries reach "developed" status), and the energy consumption per-capita will also stagnate. After all, there is a huge difference between going from living in a log house to a modern apartment with utilities and AC, and not much of a difference between one laptop and a slightly better one some years down the line. Also, attitudes towards environmental protection are changing with the generations so we are likely making different decisions 50 years from now.

?? It's entirely reasonable for two populations to make statistically different choices when they are under different pressures. It is exactly what is happening with what is being discussed in this thread: white men skipping college because they have face pressures to earn money, feel college is not for them, etc. Women face different levels of these pressures and also pressure to skip STEM and go into "feminine" majors.

The different pressures are sufficient to explain much of the different major choices, especially when considering the changing distribution in other countries with different sets of pressures.

There are indeed differences between men and women -- cis-men can't give birth, for instance. However, other than the statistical population differences, an average man and an average women with equitable socioeconomic settings are incredibly similar in many areas. Perhaps even in an ideal world there would be more female biologists and more male IT workers. That would be fine. What matters is that a human who is interested in something would have a fighting chance to get there.

Right now, cultural and societal factors are tipping different scales in different ways. For future generation, we would do well to reduce the imbalance -- encourage and support minorities, women, and, yes, white men. People face different battles and helping some does not mean others have to be ignored.

The point is, in middle eastern societies, the realities of working in STEM don't impact the choices women make for their college majors as much. Most of them go to college before marriage with the expectation of not having a long term career in what they study (public colleges are almost always free there, btw). They decide what to do considering different sets of pressures in comparison to women in the west.

Women in more egalitarian societies make their choices under different pressures. They need more of a long-term plan for their career choice and they don't have as many children or marry or leave the workforce as early nor as often as women in the middle east.

Do note though that as more women get into STEM, the experienced and perceived discrimination levels drop dramatically and even more women make the switch. Also, I think it's useful to note that there has been a systemic reduction in what I call the level of "generational misogyny." I can confirm from my own experience that there is a huge difference in how older vs younger (<40yo) men interact with women.

Younger folks are way more egalitarian and some of them assume that they all get the same treatment from older folks but that is just not true. A 30 years old male researcher could have entirely pleasant and productive working relationships with both female researchers in his generation and male researchers in their 60s. He might not expect or understand the degree of hostility or discrimination his female colleagues face when dealing with these very same older researchers. I believe that as time passes and the egalitarian culture actually gets to the "top of the food chain," we will see a distribution that is more representative of male and female preferences without the added discriminatory pressure.

As someone who has experience with the educational systems of the middle east, I find it amusing how you are misinterpreting the situation.

It's extremely hard for women in these countries to get good careers in any field other than teaching or medicine especially since they are often forced to marry and leave the work force (they can't work without their husbands' permission and they almost always handle all child care). It is the norm for women to marry right after graduating from college and not doing so is seen as abnormal.

The combination of this results in women going to college and studying what they actually _like_ in their final years of "freedom." They choose STEM because they like it.

In the west, women are probably as inherently interested in STEM as in these other countries, but they also know that they need to get a job and they often choose career paths that would give them less pain due to harassment or discrimination.

Yes you're right, getting the Emirates ID depends on the visa type. But, there are lots of expatriates and people visiting for work or school who can get it/already have it. You can also almost always sign up using a passport in person and sometimes online too.

Libby also works with many other libraries around the world and a bunch of them allow signing up for an account online.

For example, Abu Dhabi Department of Culture and Tourism has a nice collection and they only require an Emirates ID which is not too hard to get for visitors. The same is true for other public libraries in the UK. It's probably a good idea to sign up for library memberships wherever you travel!