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            1. …in reply to @ThinkingFeynman
              ThinkingFeynman UshanOfBlook LinguaCelta WenSchw AndreaLynnLewis hollymathnerd You know, I can’t help wondering whether you’d be as doubtful of “this person”’s bona fides if her avatar were a drawing of a middle-aged guy instead of a pretty woman. 1/
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          1. …in reply to @ndw
            ThinkingFeynman UshanOfBlook LinguaCelta WenSchw AndreaLynnLewis hollymathnerd This summer, I watched Dr. Tovey write a natural-language processing program that analyzes bilingual data, translates orthographic forms into phonetic approximations to test for ad-hoc respellings, and tags them with a part of speech. 2/
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          ThinkingFeynman UshanOfBlook LinguaCelta WenSchw AndreaLynnLewis hollymathnerd She wrote almost all of it from scratch, for a minority language with very little by way of prior NLP tools. She’s not solving PDEs, because she’s busy doing awesome work that contributes to her *second* PhD. 3/
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        ThinkingFeynman UshanOfBlook LinguaCelta WenSchw AndreaLynnLewis hollymathnerd I’ve been a software engineer for 30 years. When searching for a particularly tricky bug, I sit down with Dr. Tovey and we talk through it. Sometimes it’s her insights that get me to the solution, even when the code is in a language she barely knows. 4/
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      ThinkingFeynman UshanOfBlook LinguaCelta WenSchw AndreaLynnLewis hollymathnerd Luckily, she’s going to marry me in January. We’re going to spend the rest of our lives exploring linguistics and coding and poetry and math, and it’s going to be glorious. 5/
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    ThinkingFeynman UshanOfBlook LinguaCelta WenSchw AndreaLynnLewis hollymathnerd Women like this, who find out they’re good at STEM later in life, are everywhere. You’re probably missing out on them, because you’re too busy gatekeeping who is allowed to be a genuine 1337 h4xxor. Be better, dude. 6/
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    1. …in reply to @ndw
      ThinkingFeynman UshanOfBlook LinguaCelta WenSchw AndreaLynnLewis hollymathnerd And if you can’t be better, at least keep your crap to yourself. /fin
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