IIRC back when “computer” is a person rather than an object, it was a woman’s job.
honestly, drawing patterns only uses “calculus” and “trig” because those are the arbitrary names given to the thought processes that blend the proper melding of mind to motion
I can’t help but feel that we aren’t even close to matching the intelligence of women.
Well obviously for you if username checks out…
Hooray for the Lady who might have written the first algorithm! She needs more attention.
Other: Charles Babbage (sp?) and the Analytic Engine: perhaps our first real computer. Imagine a steampunk world where all our devices were powered by huge mechanical chunks and chonks.
I saw a video of a constructed Analytical Engine (they couldn’t manufacture the parts to the specs required in Babbage’s time) donated to a Computer History museum by an early Microsoft exec. Didn’t find it on a quick search, but it’s a huge thing driven by a physical crank.
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On the subject of lace, making it is very intricate and quite mathematical too
In my town the fact girls were worse than boys at maths was addressed, education of girls was improved
Now girls are better than boys at maths and no one seems to care
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The intent of the post, sure. Women and men are equally capable of anything.
But absolutely nobody creating sewing patterns is sitting down and going “alright the integral of e to the x dx is…” Or remembering their laplace transformations.
Do you think “mental calculus” means people are doing derivatives in their heads?
It doesn’t. It’s also not what was meant by the author of this post when they used the word.
Of course they don’t mean women pull out a calculator, a notebook, and start doing calculations, anymore than when a person throws a ball at a target they pull out some graph paper and start calculating parabolic arcs and all that shit. They’re saying we do it instinctively, and if we’re good at doing it instinctively then we can do it intellectually.
I love over-complicating things… but Calculus in a sewing pattern sounds really strange.
Unless… it is like for a space suit where you need to be accurate? Or making something for a form fitting hard surface?I imagine people are using calculus to analyze knitting patterns and stuff. Not the knitters themselves, but mathematicians who are studying knots or whatever
Quilters would like a word.
where you need to be accurate
Only if you want clothes that fit
I’m not saying I couldn’t see cases where I would seriously consider using calculus in a sewing pattern, but it’s really not used in sewing pattern creation basically ever unless someone already knows it and has a very specific use case. I suspect the OP meant “calculations” or something similar and mis-typed.
Source: I still remember a fair amount of calculus and I sew
- as the title indicates, women have been there since the dawn of computing
- computer referred to a person that did calculations, and it was usually a woman.
- is sitting on your ass on a comfortable chair in front of a computer instead of running around caving in skulls really masculine or feminine?
- same for AI but I’m sure in 50 years we’ll see books and articles talk about how barely any women used or had access to AI, much in the same way people claim historically woman couldn’t access banking services
whats really funny to me is people make this claim, but any good study that looks for differences finds none or that women are very slightly better at math and spatial reasoning
Got a good link to read and share?
Someone passed this before; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water-level_task
This finds the opposite and proves the original conjecture, that men perform better than women on spatial tasks
32% of college women failed the test, compared to 15% of college men
So both genders are fucking stupid?
Everybody is stupid, unless the CHOOSE not to be.
Don’t be silly. I have an overcomplicated learning chart, and neither the time nor capacity to study.
My speech patterns are still stained with my earlier learnings, making me sound smarter than I am.
People just don’t feel comfortable with the idea that their intelligence can simply be taken away.
Wait you’re telling me that women are better? So that differences between the sexes exist?
Whenever I hear someone slopping that “adage” out, I silently note that they’ve no idea how many of the Apollo astronauts returned home safely. (It rhymes with “female mathematicians”, btw.)
(It rhymes with “female mathematicians”, btw.)
…The male mathematicians? Retail statisticians?? Detailed staff positions???
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The origins of computer programming are also intertwined with textiles, as the first punch card programs emerged as part of weaving in the early 1800s (Jacquard looms).
Also interesting: trans people in addition to cis women are historically associated with textile production in many cultures. Trans programmer socks = modern day trans weaver.
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A lot of math needed, more as for the pattern, to make clothes to fit on an irregular body
First computers are based on the input of sewing machines
I wonder if this is what they were referencing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water-level_task
“…the finding that men perform [the water-level task] at a higher level has been robustly confirmed.”I assume for the college level students it’s who can mark the level of the water most accurately? I certainly hope all of them would at least mark the water line horizontal to the ground
Wikipedia suggests a common failure is to not change the angle of the water surface, leaving it parallel to the base of the tube rather than to gravity
It goes on to say “One typical study from 1989 found that 32% of college women failed the test, compared to 15% of college men.” A third of girls who made it into college couldn’t do it.
Been seeing these shorts of a dude who does tie dye shirts, but he does hella math to know how fold the fabric up and get gnarly geometric shapes and mandalas. It’s like damascus steel, but with trippy colors.
