Define And Give Examples Of Different Software Under Word Processing' title='Define And Give Examples Of Different Software Under Word Processing' />Untitled Slate Star Codex. EDIT This is the most controversial post I have ever written in ten years of blogging. I wrote it because I was very angry at a specific incident. NewLISP User Manual and Reference. To serve CGI, HTTP server mode needs a tmp directory on Unixlike platforms or a Ctmp directory on MS Windows. LISP can. This is a collection of examples of using python in the kinds of scientific and engineering computations I have used in classes and research. They are organized by. I stand by a lot of it, but if somebody links you here saying HERES THE SORT OF GUY THIS SCOTT ALEXANDER PERSON IS, READ THIS SO YOU KNOW WHAT HIS BLOG IS REALLY ABOUT, please read any other post instead. Theres a whole list of Top Posts on the Top Posts bar above. Trigger warning social justice, condemnation of some feminism, tangential reference to eating disorder. Note that although our names are very similar, I am NOT the same person as Scott Aaronson and he did NOT write this article. Not meant as a criticism of feminism, so much as of a certain way of operationalizing feminism. I. In my heart, there is a little counter that reads XXX days without a ten thousand word rant about feministm. And I had just broken three digits when they had to go after Scott Aaronson. For those of you who dont know, Scott Aaronson is one of the nicest, smartest, and most decent people there are. A few days ago, in response to a discussion of sexual harassment at MIT, Aaronson reluctantly opened up about his experience as a young man I check Feministing, and even radfem blogs like I Blame the Patriarchy. And yes, Ive read many studies and task force reports about gender bias, and about the privilege and entitlement of the nerdy males thats keeping women away from science. Alas, as much as I try to understand other peoples perspectives, the first reference to my male privilegemy privilegeis approximately where I get off the train, because its so alien to my actual lived experience. But I suspect the thought that being a nerdy male might not make me privilegedthat it might even have put me into one of societys least privileged classesis completely alien to your way of seeing things. To have any hope of bridging the gargantuan chasm between us, Im going to have to reveal something about my life, and its going to be embarrassing. Heres the thing I spent my formative yearsbasically, from the age of 1. I was terrified that one of my female classmates would somehow find out that I sexually desired her, and that the instant she did, I would be scorned, laughed at, called a creep and a weirdo, maybe even expelled from school or sent to prison. You can call that my personal psychological problem if you want, but it was strongly reinforced by everything I picked up from my environment to take one example, the sexual assault prevention workshops we had to attend regularly as undergrads, with their endless lists of all the forms of human interaction that might be sexual harassment or assault, and their refusal, ever, to specify anything that definitely wouldnt be sexual harassment or assault. I left each of those workshops with enough fresh paranoia and self hatred to last me through another year. My recurring fantasy, through this period, was to have been born a woman, or a gay man, or best of all, completely asexual, so that I could simply devote my life to math, like my hero Paul Erds did. Anything, really, other than the curse of having been born a heterosexual male, which for me, meant being consumed by desires that one couldnt act on or even admit without running the risk of becoming an objectifier or a stalker or a harasser or some other creature of the darkness. Hp Laserjet Mfp Wizard Console'>Hp Laserjet Mfp Wizard Console. Of course, I was smart enough to realize that maybe this was silly, maybe I was overanalyzing things. So I scoured the feminist literature for any statement to the effect that my fears were as silly as I hoped they were. But I didnt find any. On the contrary I found reams of text about how even the most ordinary malefemale interactions are filled with microaggressions, and how even the most enlightened malesespecially the most enlightened males, in factare filled with hidden entitlement and privilege and a propensity to sexual violence that could burst forth at any moment. Because of my fearsmy fears of being outed as a nerdy heterosexual male, and therefore as a potential creep or sex criminalI had constant suicidal thoughts. As Bertrand Russell wrote of his own adolescence I was put off from suicide only by the desire to learn more mathematics. At one point, I actually begged a psychiatrist to prescribe drugs that would chemically castrate me I had researched which ones, because a life of mathematical asceticism was the only future that I could imagine for myself. The psychiatrist refused to prescribe them, but he also couldnt suggest any alternative my case genuinely stumped him. As well it mightfor in some sense, there was nothing wrong with me. In a different social contextfor example, that of my great grandparents in the shtetlI would have gotten married at an early age and been completely fine. And after a decade of being coy about it, I suppose Ive finally revealed the meaning of this blogs title. Now, the whole time I was struggling with this, I was also fighting a second battle to maintain the liberal, enlightened, feminist ideals that I had held since childhood, against a powerful current pulling me away from them. Show Difference Between 2 Text Files here. I reminded myself, every day, that no, theres no conspiracy to make the world a hell for shy male nerds. There are only individual women and men trying to play the cards theyre dealt, and the confluence of their interests sometimes leads to crappy outcomes. No woman owes male nerds anything no woman deserves blame if she prefers the Neanderthals everyones free choice demands respect. That I managed to climb out of the pit with my feminist beliefs mostly intact, you might call a triumph of abstract reason over experience. But I hope you now understand why I might feel only 9. All right. Guy opens up for the first time about how he was so terrified of accidentally hurting women that he became suicidal and tried to get himself castrated. Eventually he got over it and is now 9. The feminist blogosphere, as always, responded completely proportionally. Amanda Marcotte, want to give us a representative sampleAaronsons post is the whole how can men be oppressed when I dont get to have sex with all the hot women that I want without having to work for it whine, one that, amongst other things, starts on the assumption that women do not suffer things like social anxiety or rejectionIt was just a yalp of entitlement combined with an aggressive unwillingness to accept that women are human beings just like men. He is saying that having to explain my suffering to women when they should already be there, mopping my brow and offering me beers and blow jobs, is so tiresomeI was too busy JAQ ing off, throwing tantrums, and making sure the chip on my shoulder was felt by everyone in the room to be bothered to do something like listen. Women are failing him by not showing up naked in his bed, unbidden. Because bitches, yo. The eternal struggle of the sexist Objective reality suggests that women are people, but the heart wants to believe they are a robot army put here for sexual service and housework. This would usually be the point where I state for the record that I believe very strongly that all women are human beings. Problem is, Ive just conceived a sudden suspicion that one of them is actually a Vogon spy in a skin suit. Anyway, Marcotte was bad enough, given that she runs one of the most read feminist blogs on the Internet. But much of the rest of the feminist discussion on Tumblr, Twitter, and the like was if anything even worse. But there was one small ray of hope.