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Re: Programming Language Creator or Serial Killer?

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Post by bryanrasmussen »

Geminidog wrote: post #96
torginus wrote: post #88

My takeaway is both programmers and serial killers look like regular people (and have some unflattering photos). The bias that you can tell killers apart by what they look like is created by the media, who probably choose sinister-looking photos when reporting on murderers.

I got 8/10 which says otherwise. I voted serial killer for both women just because of how unlikely it is for a female to invent a programming language. If it wasn't for that I would be basically 90% correct. This means statistically that there likely is a difference. I can't put my finger on what it was though, I just knew. Basically anybody who looked insane must be an inventor of a programming language and anyone w…

it's also statistically unlikely for females to be serial killers as well.

Re: Programming Language Creator or Serial Killer?

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Post by [deleted] »

Geminidog wrote: post #96
torginus wrote: post #88

My takeaway is both programmers and serial killers look like regular people (and have some unflattering photos). The bias that you can tell killers apart by what they look like is created by the media, who probably choose sinister-looking photos when reporting on murderers.

I got 8/10 which says otherwise. I voted serial killer for both women just because of how unlikely it is for a female to invent a programming language. If it wasn't for that I would be basically 90% correct. This means statistically that there likely is a difference. I can't put my finger on what it was though, I just knew. Basically anybody who looked insane must be an inventor of a programming language and anyone w…

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Re: Programming Language Creator or Serial Killer?

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Post by ghaff »

II2II wrote: post #109
Geminidog wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I got 8/10 which says otherwise. I voted serial killer for both women just because of how unlikely it is for a female to invent a programming language. If it wasn't for that I would be basically 90% correct. This means statistically that there likely is a difference. I can't put my finger on what it was though, I just knew. Basically anybody who looked insane must be an inventor of a programming language and anyone w…

I found that qualities of the photo played a strong role in my 8/10 score. I can't say exactly which qualities helped make that determination, aside from one case which looked like a police photo. Oddly enough, I thought that both women were programming language creators for similar reasons to yours. This is because they were older women. (Well, a new photo of an old woman and an old photo of a young woman.) While my…

It's pretty well documented that there's been a general decline of women in computer science over the past two or three decades. There are various theories.

Re: Programming Language Creator or Serial Killer?

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Post by ghaff »

Someone wrote: post #83
CamperBob2 wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought Apple was pushing FireWire at the time?

FireWire is serial, too. It seems that, over larger distances, parallel only is faster up to a certain clock frequency (or if you want to go to extreme lengths to ensure each wire in a parallel channel has the same transmission delay, as Cray did ( https://www.reddit.com/r/cableporn/comments/11vku2/each_of_t... )

Right. There was a period in maybe the 2000s? when a number of the formerly parallel interconnect technologies were being replaced by serial ones because the frequencies had gotten high enough that clock skew was becoming a big problem.

Re: Programming Language Creator or Serial Killer?

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Post by Blikkentrekker »

torginus wrote: post #88

My takeaway is both programmers and serial killers look like regular people (and have some unflattering photos). The bias that you can tell killers apart by what they look like is created by the media, who probably choose sinister-looking photos when reporting on murderers.

I find that, ironically, a great deal of advice given to people on how to “be safe” is very counter-effective, for it inspires within them the mistaken confidence that they can easily recognize who is dangerous, and are thus more likely to drop their guard when such recognition yields a false negative.

I also recently saw a comment on a forum along the lines of “If Hollywood started to consistently cast beautiful people as murderers, murder would become more socially acceptable.”; — it wouldn't surprise me.

Re: Programming Language Creator or Serial Killer?

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Post by maze-le »

yread wrote: post #108
chrisaycock wrote: post #21

A similar game is Quant Fund or Metal Band: http://www.quantfundormetalband.com/ My score there was only slightly better than on Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer.

There was also one for swedish metal band or ikea furniture

Yep, also totally reminded me of that: http://ikeaordeath.com/

Re: Programming Language Creator or Serial Killer?

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Post by Blikkentrekker »

layer8 wrote: post #93
torginus wrote: post #88

My takeaway is both programmers and serial killers look like regular people (and have some unflattering photos). The bias that you can tell killers apart by what they look like is created by the media, who probably choose sinister-looking photos when reporting on murderers.

I think the bias is fundamentally human, it’s been a thing since ancient times: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiognomy

It goes far deeper than that.

I remember a conversation with an i.r.c. user who claimed he “imagined” users to have a certain hair color based on little more information than their i.r.c. nickname. Until I pointed out to them that surely that cannot be accurate at all, especially given that he imagined two different hair colors of the same user under a different nickname on different networks, he also did not even quæstion the accuracy of this and simply silently assumed it to be accurate.

It was really quite weird. He proffered an entire description of what he thought I would look like based on very little information which, needless to say, was mostly objectively quite false.

The user with different nicknames went even further and at one point seemed to expect me to be able to correctly assume what so-called “race” he categorized himself as, without having seen so much as a picture. Given that this same user had prior expressed surprise about my so-called “race” when seeing a picture, thus having assumed it wrongly prior, this was especially odd.

Re: Programming Language Creator or Serial Killer?

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Post by [deleted] »

Geminidog wrote: post #96
torginus wrote: post #88

My takeaway is both programmers and serial killers look like regular people (and have some unflattering photos). The bias that you can tell killers apart by what they look like is created by the media, who probably choose sinister-looking photos when reporting on murderers.

I got 8/10 which says otherwise. I voted serial killer for both women just because of how unlikely it is for a female to invent a programming language. If it wasn't for that I would be basically 90% correct. This means statistically that there likely is a difference. I can't put my finger on what it was though, I just knew. Basically anybody who looked insane must be an inventor of a programming language and anyone w…

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Re: Programming Language Creator or Serial Killer?

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Post by undefined1 »

ummwhat wrote: post #102
Geminidog wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I got 8/10 which says otherwise. I voted serial killer for both women just because of how unlikely it is for a female to invent a programming language. If it wasn't for that I would be basically 90% correct. This means statistically that there likely is a difference. I can't put my finger on what it was though, I just knew. Basically anybody who looked insane must be an inventor of a programming language and anyone w…

Women are also highly unlikely to be serial killers. I don't know which is more unlikely.

Camille Paglia (feminist academic, professor) has written and lectured about why that is. She has a famous line: "There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper."

Re: Programming Language Creator or Serial Killer?

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Post by antihero »

Blikkentrekker wrote: post #115
torginus wrote: post #88

My takeaway is both programmers and serial killers look like regular people (and have some unflattering photos). The bias that you can tell killers apart by what they look like is created by the media, who probably choose sinister-looking photos when reporting on murderers.

I find that, ironically, a great deal of advice given to people on how to “be safe” is very counter-effective, for it inspires within them the mistaken confidence that they can easily recognize who is dangerous, and are thus more likely to drop their guard when such recognition yields a false negative. I also recently saw a comment on a forum along the lines of “ If Hollywood started to consistently cast beautiful pe…

Well that's the issue, if we give people rules for people to follow when assessing the danger of a situation or someone's behaviour, then they are at a danger to anyone who can hack those rules and not set off the red flags. We have to teach people intuition, and to deeply question people's motives and what they have to gain versus what the person has to lose.
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