Miscellany

It’s Not Gender Warfare… It’s Math.

This article hits me right in the section of my lady heart forever devoted to math and computer programming. I’m off to apply to grad school and run some regressions on the gender disparity in STEM fields.

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(A shorter version of this piece appears in today’s Washington Post. Photo of Google executive and engineer Marissa Mayer via. Headline via.)

Let’s say I was designing a new piece of software to make my life as a writer a little easier. First, I’d program it count how many characters I’d typed out and in what amount of time, in order to document my productivity on any given day. Then I’d ask it to compare words, phrases, sentences and entire paragraphs from one draft to the next, in order to calculate how much of what I’d written had changed…or stayed the same.

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