slate > Why Have So Few Women Won the Most Important Award in Computing? Since 1966, 70 computer scientists have won the Turing Award. Only three have been women. have you tried googling "autism rates by gender" ?
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3/ agreed, but if "male autism" leads guys to obsess about things like factoring numbers and graph theory, and "female autism" doesn't, then it's not really autism that matters - it's the male manifestation of it https://twitter.com/black_room__/status/1214317214213517312 …
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4/ As a personal aside, back when I was 4 or 5 I learned how to add, and filled endless notebook pages with incrementing numbers, trying to reach the highest one. Later I was obsessed with "draw a square with an X in the middle without lifting your pencil". Which >>>
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5/ lead to a magical moment when I was in college and suddenly realized "holy cow, I bet I have enough conceptual tools now to actually approach this mathematically !" and then I did my first fully-self-motivated proof for why it's impossible. >>>
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6/ Nodes that are neither initial nor terminal have an integer number n of traversals, and thus 2n line segments ending in them (EVEN) If A and D are distinct nodes, each has an ODD number of line segments. If the same node, then EVEN.
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7/ So we know that EITHER (a) 2 nodes have an odd number of line segments terminating there, and the others even, or (b) all nodes have an even number of line segments terminating there. HOWEVER, diagram as drawn has 4 nodes, each with an odd number of line segments ending.
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8/ THEREFORE the diagram as drawn can not be drawn by the process as specified. Took me about 60 seconds to figure out and I had this very weird mix of emotions. (a) a 15 year itch finally scratched!!!! (b) disappointment
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9/ It should have been harder. :(
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