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Either way, it is damn ugly.




Unlike personality classifications (which are essentially witchcraft with better marketing), gender is objectively verifiable (yeah yeah gender studies students, I passed the class too, thanks for your comment) and so makes for a much more productive area of research. Trivial algorithms (~60 lines of awk last time I did it) are very capable of pegging gender with 80%+ accuracy for some corpora.

See generally: http://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~koppel/papers/male-female-text-final....


You're speaking of "sex," not "gender" -- the former is biological and there are two of them; the latter is cultural or social and there could be arbitrarily many.

I say this while being a conservative; the semantic distinction is a useful one, although attempting to blur the distinction between a (biological) sex and a (cultural) gender never does any good.


Why couldn't patio11 be speaking of gender? In fact, I think a study measuring gender would identify with even more accuracy, although data collection would be harder (you would need the authors to report how they identified). Anyways, the linked study uses the word "gender" - it's probably conflating the two, as often happens.


... because he said that it is objectively verifiable


Which gender is. Your gender is how you identify, so unless you are lying to a researcher who asks you what gender you identify as, it's objectively verifiable.


there are intersex biologies to account for if you want to be very precise


It was 79% sure my blog was written by a man but it was 74% sure my girlfriend's blog was written by a man as well.

I'm not impressed.


You need a larger sample size before being impressed or unimpressed. If it's 74% sure of something, it should be wrong a quarter of the time; if not, its confidence estimate was too low.


It's 57% sure http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/ is written by a woman, too.


I recently received a registration email from a website that I had never been to before. Apparently, a person with my same name beilieved HE owned $firstname.$lastname@gmail.com

It sent me his log-in credentials in plain text and I was able to contact him via his phone/address to warn him not to use my email.


Other similarity: I've used Facebook free for 1000 hours.


At least I don't keep getting facebook cd's in the mail.


Well theres so much material in the Expanded Universe including a book called "Death Star" that tells the story of the Rebel Alliance victory from the perspective of people who worked there. So, I would just have to assume that they went over the specs/dimensions/weight of the Death Star at some point.

http://www.starwars.com/databank/location/deathstar/?id=eu


the story of the Rebel Alliance victory from the perspective of people who worked [in the Death Star]

I hope that Randal from Clerks is credited in the author's acknowledgements.


That page itself has conflicting reports of the size. At the top it says "Size: 160 kilometers in diameter," but lower on down the page, it says "The Death Star was 120 kilometers in diameter."


My 'A Guide to the Star Wars Universe' is telling me the first one was 120 km, and the second one was 160 km.


GRAVITY_DEATH_STAR_I clearly tells us they are only concerned with the first death star...not the second.

Future versions of Android may feature GRAVITY_DEATH_STAR_II


Man, when I was in middle school I was so proud of myself for devouring The Lost World in like 4 days. I loved his work, and though I haven't read one of his books in some time, I will miss him greatly.


Video at the polling booths might be illegal with our current laws.


It would invade people's privacy. You don't want people to know if you have voted or not and when.


Not to put too fine a point on it, say I'm the only bee in your bonnet!


Thanks, you've given me a lot to think about.


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