The problem with the founder's wife sounds like a very one sided account of your standard interpersonal conflict. Everyone who has ever been in one of those has at some point claimed themselves to be a saint and their opponent a demon.
The alleged sexism seems to be primarily imaginary.
The anonymous posting that so upset her and precipitated all of this said:
> has a history of RAGINING against any professional criticism. Leadership has stood idly by while she lied about contributions and threw hardworking coworkers under the bus (again and again)[1]
To be honest, it seems to me that such could very well be true.
You might want to see a counselor about your crippling interpersonal inadequacy. I think after you clear up your mental health issues you might be less insanely fixated on shoehorning meaningless occurrences into the framework of your delusions.
> I think it is more likely that their outreach programs (through CS AP teacher training etc.) that encouraged the best and brightest women to apply were successful, so that the pool of women were significantly more qualified.
That is entirely implausible. Those straws are miles away, dude.
That could perhaps explain a 20% difference, not a 330% difference.
Um, how CMU:SCS has a gender ratio higher than average is because they accept more women. In 2000 the acceptance rate for women was 39%, for men it was 9% [1].
This is completely boring, MIT could make it so its CS class was 100% women if it wanted to, and because loads of very intelligent people apply to MIT I am sure that class of 100% women would do well. But, this is not a tactic that your average school who struggles to get qualified applicants at all can utilize.
I think most answers here are over thinking it; I do not think he wants a website that can defeat the NSA, just one where the service provider could get subpoenaed and not lead them to him.
So, just buy webhosting with Bitcoin at somewhere that does not require contact details.
That women of lose more than expected when they play against men of equivalent rating is entirely consistent with regression towards the mean [1].
Because elo ratings contain error and men are on average better at chess [2], the average true value that elo ratings are trying to measure will be lower for women than men at equivalent elo ratings.
No. No one is threatened by women, just perhaps annoyed by their endless complaining.
> To use an analogy, I can't imagine Olympic athletes being happy for the best competitors from another country being sidelined due to their sexual preference. No, that's not happening. because world class athletes know their victories are hollow unless they're truly competing against the very best in the world.
But you can probably see how male Olympians would be annoyed if they had to put up with 24/7 accusations that their superior performance in comparison to female Olympians was only because how much they hated them.
Indeed. But I find her story substantially delusional and just another example of where someone takes the fact that someone once did something rude to them and masturbates it into some grand sociological theory.
Her claim that women's under performance is due to experiences with other chess players does not line with what else we know. For example, after controlling for initial ability, women are no more likely to quit playing chess than men and have identical career progression [1]. Meaning 100% of why women are underrepresented occurs before they get involved in chess. And, mind sports that are female dominated (scrabble, 53% female) still show much greater male performance.
Well, no system could have a perfectly accurate merit assignment system... but the fact is that tech has much, much lower barriers to entry than other domains.
The complaining about women's representation at conferences seems to be predicated on the belief that women would be equally represented if merit assessment was unbiased (thus gender imbalance is proof of bias): well, here is a situation where merit assessment is unbiased (performance is measured by a timer). And the gender situation is more or less the same (women's representation is much lower at the top than overall). This leads me to conclude that the women in tech complaining is unfounded.