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Shouldn't this be called "Gender Machine", they get it right on the project description but not on the project name, weird.
Determining the boy/girl-ness of a chicken is called "sexing" the chick. I see "sex machine" as a machine that sexes by name.
As a man named Tracy I would just throw out a caution to anyone thinking of using this. At this point in my life I don't really care about people calling Ms. Tracy Platt. But what it does do is immediately signal that I don't really need to pay attention. Fake familiarity doesn't usually work too well. As a side note I would like to mention that having a girl's name does have some benefits. For example my wife can ha…
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Shouldn't this be called "Gender Machine", they get it right on the project description but not on the project name, weird.
I had a friend who insisted "gender" should be used for linguistic use (for example cheese being masculine in French) and "sex" for the boy/girl-ness of a person. Determining the boy/girl-ness of a chicken is called "sexing" the chick. I see "sex machine" as a machine that sexes by name.
Without knowing what data it's been trained on it's of questionable use. What maybe a 18 year old american girls name may be a 60 year old german mans name. The gender of a name can vary heavily by culture and time-period, it would make much more sense for the api to return the data in the form of ranked probabilities. As an aside it's worth noting that as this library is GPL3 it means you can't use this code in any…
Of course you can. Usage != distribution.
Out of curiosity, why did you choose that name?
1. Rename "Sex Machine" 2. Why Women Don't Like Rubyists 3. Don't Publically Shame the Person Who Suggested the Name Change 4. Take Your 'Sex Machine' and Shove It
Gender identity is actually a quite tricky topic and should be approached carefully. I would discourage anyone from trying to use this library, the real world doesn't fit neatly in your multiple-choice view of gender. For more information, please watch this great talk: http://vimeo.com/61172068 .
As a man named Tracy I would just throw out a caution to anyone thinking of using this. At this point in my life I don't really care about people calling Ms. Tracy Platt. But what it does do is immediately signal that I don't really need to pay attention. Fake familiarity doesn't usually work too well. As a side note I would like to mention that having a girl's name does have some benefits. For example my wife can ha…
Me and my significant other frequently impersonate each other when dealing with banks and hospitals over the phone (we're a gay couple). It honestly never occurred to me that straight folks can't get away with this. How unfortunate; it's quite a time saver!