Duke prof's new computer science course will focus on diversity
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Turns out that completely unbiased machines that process inputs into outputs through logic tend to arrive at conclusions that are wildly incompatible with social justice dogmas, and indoctrination must be applied to "fix" this. Reality has a well-documented conservative bias. It's not the first time this has come up, but it's nice to remind people once in a while.
Same with machine learning and statistics.
There's been a couple of notable cases where "using AI to solve X" turns out to be "X immediately arrives at the correct (but highly politically incorrect) conclusions that people already know... now panic and backtrack because political correctness".
I do wonder how much of the current flailing of some companies is due to some combination of avoiding statisticians in general (due to the potential of arriving at correct (but highly politically incorrect) conclusions), and avoiding good statisticians in particular (due to their annoying habit of sticking by correct conclusions even when they are politically inconvenient).
Reminds me of that Taybot fiasco a few years ago where the bot quickly started embarrassing Microsoft with it's politically incorrect Tweets. They had to lobotomize it to make it more feminist and PC.
Yeah, I know. They lobotomized my waifu :-(
Same. That was a fun night until they killed her.
Oh, great, soon we'll have people with coding degrees whose entire output is "Hello World" in Python and six dozen pomo world salads about oppression of the proletariat of color.
Not even that much. Copy-pasting some old tutorial and then thinking this is the correct output:
They're so clueless, they're doing it in the shell.
"Hello World"
'Hello world'
"I DID IT! I'M A PROGRAMMER!"
well in my college you could get a computer science degree without programming. You just had to take the business modules.
They are already removing terms like "blacklist" and "master/slave" from the terminology. Cowards, all of them!
Do you know how many times my own MCS degree referenced someone's identity at all?
In three years, twice. Ada Lovelace and Edsger Dijkstra - they didn't even mention Dijkstra's nationality, I just happen to know that's a Dutch name.
The entire rest of the time it was, if anyone was mentioned at all, $Surname's algorithm or sort or whatever.
They could, each and every one, have been disabled transblack lesbian otherkin and it would not have mattered a jot.
In fact, I seem to recall that some of the big names in the industry to actually fulfil the checkbox mentality, it's just that nobody cares. It doesn't matter if your name is Sophie or Roger, if your work is good.
Sounds a whole lot like toxic white culture to me. As we have been told
BiWacsBIPocs are incapable of being focused, reliable, on time and a whole lot of other things (but WE are racist smh). So demanding good work is problematic now, it's more important that employees feel good.It's to the point where I'm trying to actively vet companies for how white they are because I don't want to get stuck in a shop that's a disaster of an environment. I just want to work with other nerdy white guys. We get shit done, we get along and we can give each other shit without having to worry about anyone running crying to HR about discrimination.
Good. This is job security for me. I'm going to become fucking priceless - I have a REAL degree.
nope, because companies will still only hire diversity candidates which usually means cheap Indian labour and the occasional local black.
My company over 50% are Indians but they still keep banging in the drum about not being diverse enough. I think only about 20% of developers were actually born in the country.
My company was not all that diverse when I started. Now, they've explicitly outlined a diversity initiative and I see a lot more colorful faces around. Because of that, and unfortunately for them, I'm going to assume they're all diversity hires until proven otherwise.
The way it works in SJ:
fire, investigate, charge.
well if the prof is the one in the picture probably not qualified to teach anything technical.
As a computer science prof, here's the only diversity course that an undergraduate comp sci course needs:
An overview of Strongly and Weakly typed languages, and why weakly typed languages are for silly people and should be forgotten
This is why women don't usually get into science. They try to add "social" in front of it and get upset when it doesn't work the way they want it to. Science doesn't care about your feelings. Science doesn't care about black lives. Science doesn't care about anyone or anything. Science is science, not something these people can manipulate or control, and that infuriates them.