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Wikipedia dumps raw database tables in a gzipped SQL format for the English language Wikipedia (enwiki) approximately once a month (e.g. dump from February 1, 2018)...By default, the script grabs the latest dump (available at https://dumps.wikimedia.your.org/enwiki/latest/), but you can also call the database creation script with a download date in the format YYYYMMDD as the first argument.
I'd guess the tool is working off an out of date article.
At the bottom of the page for each of the countries "Articles related to Italy" is a huge expandable section, with even more expandable sections inside. You can actually find both New Zealand and Faroe Islands in there.
If you view-source the Italy page, you can find a link to both of those countries.
Sexism links to both philosophy and Ethiopia. It is treating links as an undirected graph (despite the visual indication showing a directional vector), which seems entirely fair.
It seems somewhat unfair. If it's not a directed graph, it means you can't actually navigate from the source to the target page by following these links...
edit: in fact, the author describes the goal of his project in another comment here: "my goal for the project which is to traverse the links as any human would be able to".
Every single example I can find makes it painfully clear it is an undirected graph. Sets may differ going from one direction to the other simply because it is only trying to find a sample set of correlations, not an exhaustive set.
The graph is most definitely directed. One small example is Facebook -> Narcissism (1 path of 1 degree)[1] compared to Narcissism -> Facebook (8 paths of 2 degrees)[2].
Philosophy links to neither sexism or "The Demographics of Africa" (and while some older version might link to sexism, it seems unlikely that it ever linked to the Demographics of Africa"). Both of those do link to Philosophy, however.
Alternately it is directed, except when it doesn't find an easy route and uses an undirected result.
> It's worth noting that Atrium's Series A had a mind-boggling 92 investors [0].
In the article somewhere it suggested that Justin was more or less testing the waters and getting investors interested as future customers in their product. It sounds like a weird mix between sales and fundraising, but a smart interesting one none the less.
If 100 investors write $50k checks, it's a small amount of money to them compared to the value the legal automation software could potentially deliver.
100 * $50k = $5M let's say for 20% of the company --> $25M round for them. Numbers are hypothetical but that'd be a pretty big A round. I bet he didn't just raise $10M off that many checks.
Yeah this is absolutely a large chunk of it. Especially when you consider how many jobs are filled through referrals [0]. At my last company, I only worked with male engineers, and so when I got a new job, I could only think of male engineers to refer to open positions.
I think this is also why inertia is so hard to offset here, we have a strong self-reinforcing cycle that's going to take a lot of external force to break out of.
Is it possible that your dating pool is subject to sampling bias?
Empirically speaking, about 1/4 of people in STEM are women, so if you've met 0 women interested in STEM, it seems like your experience simply aren't an accurate reflection of reality. [0]
I think it's incredibly ironic that you're highlighting your own relative interest in STEM while failing to apply any degree of scientific rigor to your own thinking.
Which country do you assume OP is in? In Germany women only make up 16% of engineers http://www.zeit.de/2013/38/frauenanteil-ingenieure. In my starting class of 300 ten years ago there were 5 women in electrical and computer engineering. Mech and building engineering was much higher. Computer science was somewhat in between.
In my high school some girls went for math and many for medicine (still a science, somewhat), but none went for engineering or computer science AFAIK.
I think you're too easily discounting his personal experience. If you ask me, at least in Germany, EE and CS is pretty much devoid of women. And if you're talking about dating, a small pool of women surrounded by men will probably be off the market most of the time. So him never dating engineers at least in my experience, is the norm.
They're doing a lot here to attract girls to STEM, but it isn't bearing much fruit.
Oh brother, there's always that one guy on HN. None of this was supposed to "scientific", so relax. I'm giving you my 37 years of experience dating at least a couple hundred women, that's it.
Women in the USSR were common in engineering degrees because many other high skill careers like law, medicine, philosophy and politics weren’t open to them.
Bangladesh isn’t that different and rich families send their daughters to get a degree so they would be more appealing to prospective husbands.
You can’t just pick random statistics and extrapolate data from them the fact is still that the more options women have the less they seem to go for specific fields which includes the engineering part of STEM.
People ignore the fact that many many men chose STEM not because they want too but because it’s expectd it’s the default career path for the new blue/white colar worker.
Myself and everyone else I know went into STEM as a career because it was “easy money” the amount of effort required to get into it is actually fairly low when compared to careers like law or medicine and the payout on average is much better.
That said the career for most people in IT isn’t going to be exactly overly satisfying and fulfilling.
Bullshit right in the first paragraph. Women snipers, women tank drivers, women pilots were not uncommon in USSR during the second world war. Half of the lawyers were women in USSR by 1980, although the comparison to US would be meaningless, the legal profession there is pretty different. Politics and philosophy... Peuh. These are not professions even in US.
Yes the USSR has had women in combat (so did other allied nations, even the US it just didn’t sent them to the front lines) however in very small amounts and mainly for propaganda purposes and while some of them achieved great things as far as anyone can be great in a war these weren’t by any stretch of the imagination the norm.
In the post war economy women were locked out of many positions my mother had to fight tooth and nail to be allowed to teach in secondary education being both Jewish and a woman it took her nearly a decade to pass retarded committees and gain enough favors.
While the USSR might have been seen as a “feminist” heaven back in the day it was far from that it was and Russia is still is very old fashioned in some regards closer to 19th century court than to the bra burning days of the 1960s in the West.
And as far as women’s emancipation went it wasn’t as much emancipation as it was exploitation.
Lenin has seen women as part of the workforce and the USSR used them as such but delegated them to the most basic tasks and positions with progression and advancement near impossible regardless of their qualifications and effort.
Education was also seen by many as a way to escape having to work in the factories and fields.
I’m not entirely sure what your experience is with Russian culture and history but it seems we have quite different views of it.
But if you are willing to read then Wikipedia has decent articles about women and feminism in the USSR and I suggest a book called Gender in 20th century USSR.
I strongly suspect that your mother's unfortunate experience was 100% caused by official Soviet antisemitism, not by anything about her gender. Post-war Soviet policy was to deny most Jews the right to even study in prestigious universities, to deny them higher degrees for spurious reasons, and exclude them from many research institutions [1] - is it any wonder that your mother found it difficult to obtain a university teaching position?
> While the USSR might have been seen as a “feminist” heaven back in the day it was far from that
Compared to the West at the time, the USSR was feminist. I have talked to several Soviet Jewish women who emigrated to the US in the 1970s. All of them were struck by blatant gender discrimination that was normal in America at the time, but to them seemed like something out of a 19th century novel; for example, needing a husband's permission to open a bank account.
It wasn’t just antisemtism it was the fact that women barred from any progression.
Sure in US it might have been oh honey why do you need to work but in the USSR it was much worse it was horrible exploitation under the guise of liberation.
It is a bit too late, but I just stubled upon a mini-series documentary by Leonid Parfenov about Russian Jews. As Parfenov points out, Russian Empire and then Soviet Union and contemporary Russian went over periods of both antisemitism and judophilia. Those interested in the history of Russian Jews should really watch it.
Here are three possible explanations for the observed behavior that don't require a belief in inherent biological differences:
1. Since countries with lower gender equality also tend to be poorer, STEM could be seen as a rare opportunity to escape poverty, and this motivation could outweighs any kind of societal bias agains female participation.
2. A quick glance at the graph of results in [0], shows that there's also a strong cultural division. Countries with more gender equality are mostly in Nordic Europe and Western Europe, while countries will less are mostly in the Middle East, Eastern Europe. It's possible for regions to develop cultural norms that reduce gender equality without also developing cultural norms that reduce female participation in STEM.
3. As a corollary to 1, and pulled directly from the article: "STEM careers are generally secure and well-paid but the risks of not following such a path can vary. In more affluent counties, where any choice of career feels relatively safe, women may feel able to make choices based on non-economic factors."
To be clear, I don't have strong evidence that any of these are necessarily true, but I think the existing of possible alternatives should at least force a reconsideration of the immediate conclusion that this correlation proves anything about biological difference.
I think it's troubling that as of writing this, none of the top comments do anything to suggest alternative explanations, and are quick to use this to confirm the existing narrative [1]. Again, I don't think I've done anything to disprove these claims, but it's indicative of a larger intellectual problem on HN if we would rather have discussions that confirm our beliefs than discussions that challenge and sharpen then.
If a woman doesn't feel compelled to pursue STEM to escape poverty - if she can make a career choice based on non-economic factors - then it's reasonable to assume her more innate traits and desires will come into play. (One such trait that asserts is a preference for dealing with people over abstract systems.) These traits are at their root biological and only modulated by culture.
I don't know, I get how the whole survivalism might seem eccentric and even paranoid, but if I had a billion dollars I would absolutely be willing to spend a few million on preparing for worst case scenarios.
I know wealth doesn't really work in strict linear proportions, but as someone with a much lower net worth, I think it's reasonable to keep iodine tablets and canned food around, and can pretty easily imaging scaling that up a bit if I had drastically greater access to capital.
None of this is to say that I'm discounting the article, I actually liked it a lot.
I think that preparing for the worst case is understandable, but this way of preparing seems totally misguided and very childish.
I like the way Bill Gates is preparing much more, he is actively working and spending his billions to avoid collapse.
Peter Thiel and his likes seem to actively work toward collapse, gaming the system and profiting from the misery of the less fortunate along the way. Hoping to reestablish an "improved" version of their society elsewhere, even after its collapse, is beyond belief.
I hope that having friends will help more than having property, in the event of society collapse. At the very least, I'd hope NZ would quickly take all his money as a special "solidarity tax", if that day would come.
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Our projects are embedded in health systems that provide services for over 100 million people. In the past year, we've helped governments fight epidemic outbreaks, respond to natural disasters, and allocate hundreds of millions of dollars in healthcare spending.
We're building early warning systems, automating data-quality checks, and developing tools to identify the most effective health interventions across entire countries.
We're looking for mission-driven engineers who care about seeing their impact in the world and are comfortable building complex, mission-critical systems.
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