Ramblings of a mathematician.
“Do men and women come up in different contexts in the newspaper? One quick way to answer that question is to compare the words in sentences that discuss women with the words in sentences that discuss men. Here’s an example of how to do this sort of analysis using Python.” blog post by Neal Caren. Read the full blog post here.
You skip town :D
Then all of your co-workers follow you :(
I was given the “money or fame” question and I answered “money” in a heartbeat. My friends were a little surprised, and gave me this lecture about how money can’t buy happiness. Am I greedy? Or just a shy person who wants to buy a hover car in the future? Is there *really* no answer to that question, or is there one?
Your friends are idiots. Not only can money buy happiness, but anyone who wishes for fame is a fucking asshole.
Your friends: Money can’t buy happiness.
You: But it can buy fame!
Crowdsourcing, unconscious prejudice and the Boston Bombing
Let’s produce a documentary about an urban problem in an African nation and then open with a bunch of pictures of the countryside!
Stevie said “how come nobody draws mermaids and mermen the other way ‘round?” and I said “oh someone was doing that but I forget who” and he said “well you’re an artist, why don’t you draw it?” SO HERE’S YOUR MAN-FISH, STEVIE.
I like how the CDC has a study about this which basically says “If it were easier for food-workers to get time off when they were sick, then they probably wouldn’t work while sick.” Excellent sleuthing, CDC.
and before you get on my case for being a pedantic ass, just try grading math exams and say it again.
Race privilege in asking questions
via thisiswhiteprivilege: Did we reblog this? Fuck it. Anyway yeah
