The article is not clear about whether this is in the companies interest or in the work forces interest. In some parts it sounds like it's better for the company, but an actual argument for that is missing. Most of the article demands it though so that women, people of color and other disadvantaged groups are less disadvantaged. It would have been more honest to be clear about it.
And it's not really honest either to just put the blame on the company. "I’m unlikely to bring up the topic of salary with a potential boss." Well, then change that. Before demanding something from a company that you would like to work for, start demanding something from yourself. It's basically the attitude "I have a problem, I could directly contribute to the solution, but I prefer ranting about that somebody else is not doing that for me."
Funny, when the rant is about issues with Google support then the critisism tends to focus around it being really hard to actually be able to talk to a human being.
I expected to read details of some legal battle over months. But this is a transcript of a chat for about 15 minutes. Srsly? That's what outrages you? Having to wait for a few minutes to cancel a newspaper subscription? How many times a day do you do this kind of thing?
Couldn't the electric variant convert the energy into electricty? With the guys in the club we many times wondered why we can't use the 8x 250W that are pulled saturday morning to power a microwave oven and everybody gets heated lunch right after the workout? Or use it to drive an AC on a hot summer day.
Sorry for sounding negative but that's half a gym membership right there. Except for a gym membership I can go 24/7 down the block (5 min walk) get access to 8 C2 rowers, a bunch of barbells, dumbbells, treadmills and spinning bikes as needed, as well as a sauna and space to train in many different ways with friends. Covid will blow over, blowing 300 bucks on a subscription for such a narrow training gear will just not feel like the right tradeoff.
I'm split on this. On one hand I appreciate these kinds of posts because they bring math with intuition to broader masses.
On the other hand, it makes people believe that they have understood what's there to understand and move on. In a sense, they contribute to the Dunning-Kruger effect.
The article illustrates this quite well. The intuition is presented well, but is no substitute for actually learning math. The first two questions in the end:
> Why is one function reversed?
> Why is convolution commutative?
With having studied math "properly", it's immediately obvious that they are answers to each other. Defining it with the "reversal" on one function is what makes the operation commutative by introducing a somewhat hidden symmetry and that's a quite common trick in mathematics.
The other two questions are also quite clear with some actual math background. Not M.Sc. level math, just some proper calculus. You just need to sit down and do the math, which can take half a page of pen-on-paper. That's what math is, you need to work it.
Again, don't get me wrong, I appreciate the effort. But those types of posts don't make you more fluid in math than reading a popular science article about Alpha Centauri makes you an astronomer or an expose about Covid-19 makes you an epidemioloist. It's popular science and can't replace the actual study of the subject.
I have a hard time believing that this is actually the case, at least more than for men.