"Surprisingly, our results show that women's contributions tend to be accepted more often than men's. However, when a woman's gender is identifiable, they are rejected more often. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless."
@matthewskelton that sentence construction made eyes start twitching!
"Surprisingly, our results show that women's contributions tend to be accepted more often than men's.”
> Why’s this a surprise? Are women, representing about 50% of population, typically cognitively incapable, knuckle draggers (https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/knuckle+draggers)?
What the hell is "superalignment"? When the "safety" people buy the BS of AGI, it's hard to know whether to take them seriously. We need safety without the superlatives, grounded in present-tense reality, not macho computer dreams and nightmares.
@jeffjarvis I was asking myself the exact same question. I thought I had stumbled on a quantum physics article by mistake that was talking about superposition and superalignment - 🤦🏾♀️.
Witnessing another occurrrence of the #ReplyGuy anti-pattern this morning inspired me to write some thoughts about this social behavior that is so common on our #Fediverse that is based on #PublicSquare#Microblogging mechanics.
On the #SocialCoding forum I created a category for #SocialExperienceDesign (or #SX) patterns, and the "Reply Guy" #AntiPattern is the first entry in what might be turned into a pattern library collection.
Just got an incredible idea to structure my project on a day to day basis, in a way that combines multiple disciplines without being overwhelming, and practical at the same time, and iterative
Each axis represents a domain or area of research or skills or theme & each coloured rectangle represents an intersection of the above.
Also each level of coloured rectangle represents one iteration of the intersection — the first visualisation/essay/ prototype of a 100 days of _____ type of project
“Nothing new under the Sun” was more of a facetious and dramatic statement, than factual.
I agree that framing/perspective has a major role to play in uncovering the previously unseen, unnoticed, etc. once “seen” it simple, beautiful and amazing in its hidden obviousness.
You have to embrace the irony of all the doom and gloom articles about AI replacing us, while working in an industry where most clients / stakeholders / PMs have no real product vision and no idea how to express what they want/ need. I think we are safe in the long run.
“It might replace ‘pixel pushing’ jobs, …” - based on current tech it’s not going to do that, as it doesn’t model interactions (context+function+form+situational information), it’s mainly used to model sequencing plausible, not always accurate or relevant, written or image form instances i.e. lots of words or images strung together.
It’s being misused for decision making and consequence “chickens” are eventually coming home to roost.
I swear, so much complexity of my life right now comes from me wanting to be able to graphically draw out an interconnected hypergraph but also have a convenient textual representation of said hypergraph
I'm sure this makes zero sense to people. But ugh. It's so frustrating to have the ideas in your brain and just not be able to really tease them out in a useful way for others
Signed,
trying to figure out how to map "do the platform engineering thing more better" into strategy and architecture
“ I think the big thing I'm struggling with here is that the most useful artifact of that style of diagram is the conversation that happens when building it.”
Welcome to the world of designer, visual asse(r)ts of Information Architecture (IA).
Hypergraph (capture and sense model) for audience of 1 perspective - you, needs to be translated and “transpired” into conceptual models for audience of many and different perspectives.
A recent realization made me take the decision to temporarily pause my book project and focus on learning information design and graphic design craft. Going to enroll in some online graphic and info design courses.
Focusing on everything needed to build a strong foundation in creating visualizations
Knowledge has min. 3 main aspects - know how, know what & know why
Most “education (indoctrination)” material is
Know how to do … - overindexed to point of zealous, cult-like imitation behavior.
Know what … is - again instead of multiple perspectives only western, eurocentric version is “legit”.
If asked why, the usual id-led rather than curiosity-led response is “How dare you question my authority/status/ego/…! Get out of my office, classroom, house”, etc.”