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Comment Re:Once again a persons career is reduced... (Score 1) 65

The evidence that this time reference to a gender in relation to her achievements is relevant. When the project application reviews for Hubble switched to double-blind (where the reviewers only see the content of the proposed research, but not the identities of the proposers), the success rate of female-led applications went from being roughly half of that of male-led applications to being roughly the same (actually a bit more).

Comment The correct numbers (Score 1) 44

A look at the original reports reveals that actually both the "threefold" and the "by 400%" claims are completely wrong.

The number ranges (apparently there are regulations banning Apple from giving specific numbers) for the requests are: 750-999 for 1H2015, 2750-2999 for 1H2016, 13250-13499 for 1H2017. Taking the mean to represent each band, we can see that from 2015 to 2017 the number of requests actually increased 15.3 times (or by 1430 percent if you like that notation). The increase from 2015 to 2016 was 3.3 times (or 230%) and the increase from 2016 to 2017 was 4.7 times (or 370%).

The number ranges for the affected accounts are: 250-499 for 1H2015, 2000-2249 for 1H2016, 9000-9249 for 1H2017. So, from 2015 to 2017 the number of affected accounts increased 24.4 times (or by 2340 percent). The increase from 2015 to 2016 was 5.7 times (or 470%) and the increase from 2016 to 2017 was 4.3 times (or 330%).

Comment Books by Gardener, Perelman, Sweigart (Score 1) 238

The Gardener and Perelman books already recommended by other commenters are good, as I can confirm based on my own experience. Though not tested on my younger self (too old for that), the books by Al Sweigart, especially the one about crypto, also look good if you want some math designed to be implemented on a computer.

Comment Prior art (Score 1) 35

While not 3D-printed, similar things have been done long before by Nikolai Aldunin. A TIME gallery features some pictures, among them perhaps most relevant at the moment a set of seven camels (plus three palm trees) in the eye of a needle and most impressive for me personally a flea fitted with horse shoes, saddle and stirrups. While TIME reported on him in 2008, most of the work is much older. I remember going to an exhibition in late 1980s.

Comment TopCoder? (Score 1) 204

The TopCoder reference is a really odd one. Code written in programming contests is generally not written to be maintainable. Rather, the focus is on submitting it fast and having it pass all tests. TopCoder contests, with their challenge phase (where participants review competitors' code and benefit from finding bugs in there), seems to particularly encourage writing obfuscated (and therefore unmaintainable) code.

Comment Digital Photo tutorials (Score 2, Interesting) 637

Could anyone recommend a good tutorial for photo touch-up using the GIMP? Everything I have found so far is for Photoshop. Being a newbie in both the photography and GIMP departments, and having never used Photoshop at all, it's quite hard to translate Photoshop advice to GIMP (it seems the terminology used by the two tools does not overlap too much).

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