#women and girls in STEM

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A video of "human calculator" Shakuntala Devi solving complex mathematical equations within seconds.

In 1982, she was awarded the Guinness World Record for fastest human computation. She was assigned a multiplication problem with two random numbers of 13 digits each (7,686,369,774,870 × 2,465,099,745,779) and gave the correct answer (18,947,668,177,995,426,462,773,730) in 28 seconds.

She travelled to several countries for the purpose of having her talents studied. In 1988, her abilities were tested by Arthur Jenson, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Problems given to her included calculating the cube root of 61,629,875 and the seventh root of 170,859,375. Jensen reported that Devi came up with the solutions (395 and 15) before he could write them down in his notebook.

Before all that, in 1977, at Southern Methodist University, she gave the 23rd root of a 201-digit number in 50 seconds. Her answer (546,372,891) was confirmed by calculations done by the UNIVAC 1101 computer, for which a special program had to be written to perform such a large calculation. The computer took longer to solve the problem than Devi did.

Oh, also, in 1979, she wrote the earliest book about homosexuality in India.

(info stolen from Wikipedia)

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It’s Girl Scout Day! March 12, 2024, is the 112th birthday of Girl Scouts in the United States, and to celebrate, we’re sharing a lithograph of the Girl Scout alumnae who became NASA astronauts.

Girl Scouts learn to work together, build community, embrace adventurousness and curiosity, and develop leadership skills—all of which come in handy as an astronaut. For example, former Scouts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir worked together to make history on Oct. 18, 2019, when they performed the first all-woman spacewalk.

Pam Melroy is one of only two women to command a space shuttle and became NASA’s deputy administrator on June 21, 2021.

Nicole Mann was the first Indigenous woman from NASA to go to space when she launched to the International Space Station on Oct. 5, 2022. Currently, Loral O’Hara is aboard the space station, conducting science experiments and research.

Participating in thoughtful activities in leadership and STEM in Girl Scouts has empowered and inspired generations of girls to explore space, and we can’t wait to meet the future generations who will venture to the Moon and beyond.

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women in STEM!

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Arlecchino x reader Domestic life

Cw: smut, breeding, talks about kids, domestic.

Trying to write about someone else but she keeps popping in my mind GGRRH

Tldr: becoming Arlecchino's housewife

Arlecchino has a breeding kink. She loves working at that orphanage and she loves all her children with all her heart seeing you playing the cute housewife role if, she can't help but have those feelings be stared inside of her again.

However, you'll be damn mistaking if you think you'll be the one breeding her. No, she's going to be the one breeding you. Fuck you so hard that you'll feel like you'll be 9 months pregnant when she's done with you. It's natural for you since you get along with all her children so well so you must want more of her kids right?

She is the Husband. You are the housewife. She wants to get home covered in blood from her Fatui work. She wants to walk into that orphanage to see you in a frilly pink apron cooking the children's meals for her to wrap your arms around you, her nails delicately dancing across your skin. Her body pressed up against you. This woman who brutally kills anyone she does not like who will stand up against an archon practically threatening them with blackmail, to relax with her arms around you and to treat you so softly.

Arlecchino would spoil you to, after getting something for the kids and supplies for the orphanage; who wouldn't want to spoil the mother of her children? Anything you want just say the word.

The children adore you. They will murder for you if you are ever in danger; your kidnappers will have to sleep with both eyes open. The wrath of your husband and your hundreds of children will be brought upon them.

[stem-procrastimate]

physics is so cool because after such a long time the little kid in you finally gets the answers to their questions and nothing makes me happier than that

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the science behind manifesting (why it works)⋆.ೃ࿔*:･🌷

this post is going to explain in depth the science behind manifesting and WHY it works, this is a lengthy, wordy post so i hope u can maybe learn something from it.

in theory, our thoughts are frequencies, and trying to manifest something is aligning ur frequencies to ur desire. (align ur thoughts with desire)

why can we consider our thoughts as waves?

lets take something else that we can consider as waves, light for example can be measured in waves and those waves are on an electromagnetic spectrum. humans are only able to absorb the visible spectrum, however there are many more spectrums that human beings can't absorb. everything on the electromagnetic spectrum is energy including light.

in that same breath we can consider our thoughts as waves bcuz scientists have found something called EEGS in the brain (EEGs track and record brain-wave patterns). electromagnetic signals were recorded in the brain when thoughts occurred. from this information u can understand that thoughts are similar to light and can be measured on the electromagnetic spectrum in WAVES.

einstien's relativity (physics)

the basic understanding was that life consists of molecules (like our bodies, what we eat, even the computer which im typing this post on), molecules -> atoms (atoms make up everything physical) and atoms -> electrons, protons, and neutrons. we can measure particles in science and what makes a particle a particle is that it has mass. what is mass? mass is a position in time and space, and mass can ALWAYS be converted to energy and vice-versa. E=MC2

the interchangeability of these two quantities has a proportionality with the speed of light (electromagnetic spectrum) with this we can understand that there is a correlation between particles and waves.

the law of assumption

the law of assumption states that what u assume to be true is true. and manifesting is neuroplasticity. ur using repetition to rewire ur thoughts, create different neuropathways, to experience a new reality.

neuroplasticity is the ability of neuronetworks in the brain to change thru growth reorganization. it is when the brain is rewired to function in someway that differs from how it previously functioned.

neuroplasticity is the reason why we r able to grow, and change and learn new things.

repetition creates long term memory by eliciting or reenacting strong chemical interactions at the synapsis of ur neuron.

neurogenesis is the continuous development of new neurons in the brain. (it only stops when ur dead)

think of it like a plant, if u stop watering the plant it'll die. its similar with our thoughts, if we stop thinking the same thoughts and start thinking different ones, our old self and thoughts would die and a new one would be created.

the definition of an assumption is a thing that is accepted as true or certain to happen without proof. the brain works thru repetition so thats why repeating thoughts can create new energy, and a new reality.

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For my lovely followers - and all people in STEM

You can do it!!

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hi :) my video about how toxic the coding community can be online is up and ready to go! i worked really hard on it so I hope you give it a watch!

also, i've attached it i the description, but if you're looking to learn to code, or develop a text-based game, I've compiled this list of resources here!

[packetpixie]

every girl needs a cinnamon coffee and a little muffin so she can do her programming. it's literally the law

[causticbibliophile]

ab 10 pages ke code likhna bhi choti baat hogayi

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girl math

[melfiiis]

🦉: "babe are you okay i saw you posted Smith College Girls for i-D magazine 2004"

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What encouraging words would you say to girls and women with dreams and ambitions who live in oppressive environments?

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The women who laid the foundation of tech

EDIT: I noticed that this post ended up being reblogged by terfs. If you're transphobic this post is not for you to reblog. I want to celebrate everyone who is not a cis man in this industry, including trans women and nonbinary people in tech, and it was my mistake to only include cis women in this post when there are so many trans women and nonbinary people who have done great things in tech as well. Trans women are women and just as important.

Here you can read about trans ppl in tech, and please do:

https://www.thecodingspace.com/blog/2022-03-01-six-trans-programmers-who-shattered-the-lavender-ceiling/

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/transgender-tech-visibility-obstacles-remain/story?id=76374628

The morning of women's day i attended a super inspiring seminar about being a woman in tech at a large tech company in my city, and now I'm inspired to share what I learned with all of you!

I didn't have time to finish this post on women's day, but it's not too late to post now: every day is a day to celebrate women!

Women actually laid the foundation for a lot of the tech industry.

For example, the first computer, ENIAC, was programmed completely by women! While men were the behind the scenes engineers, it was women who did all the actual programming of ENIAC.

The women who made up the team responsible for programming it were called Jean Bartik, Kay McNulty, Betty Holberton, Marlyn Wescoff, Frances V. Spence and Ruth Teitelbaum.

I think one woman who is finally getting her overdue recognition is Ada Lovelace. She was a mathematician (also often referred to as the first programmer) who created the first algorithm in 1842, which wasn't recognized until 1953! However, since none of her machines were ever completed it was never tested in practice during her time.

She has since been celebrated by giants such as google, and she has given name to a programming language (Ada). She was also the first person to write about what is today known as AI. Back when she was practicing, computers were simply thought of as calculators. But she had an idea that if computers can understand numbers, then that can be translated to letters, and in turn that can lead to computers being able to handle words, and eventually even write, draw and create music.

Hedy Lamarr was a famous Hollywood actress in the 40's, but she was also an inventor who laid ground for what we use today for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS services.

During WW2 she wanted to contribute positviely to the military efforts against the Nazis, and she tried to figure out how to radio control torpedoes. In 1942 she patented her technology "Secret Communications System", also known as frequency hopping, which laid the foundation for the technology we use today for Wi-Fi, GPS and Bluetooth. It wasn't until 1962 that it was first used for its intended purpose, during the cuban missile crisis.

Grace Hopper invented the first compiler, called A-0, in 1955, and was also part of the Univac team, which was the company also responsible for building ENIAC. She also initiated work on the COBOL programming language.

She was also the one to coin the term "bug" in 1947. Computers back then had lights to visualize their working process (which was also a womans idea to implement btw) and bugs would be attracted to the lights, but usually that was no issue - until a bug made its way into a tube which caused the computer to stop working. Hopper taped the bug to a piece of paper and logged what caused the crash - a bug.

Dorothy Vaughan (left), alongside colleagues such as Katherine Johnson (middle) and Mary Jackson (right), was a mathematician at NASA (called NACA when she started) who worked on the orbit for the first ever manned spaceflight and later also on Apollo 11 that would take humanity to the moon!

When Vaughan started at what was then called NACA, segregation was still prevalent in the US and she was not allowed in the same areas in the office as her white colleagues. Another department was formed for the black staff, and when the director of said department unexpectedly died, she was appointed as the new director and thus became the first ever black woman at that position at NACA/NASA. In 1958 when NACA becomes NASA segregation is forbidden, and that is when Vaughan and her colleagues Johnson and Jackson started working on programming the orbit and later also Apollo 11.

Continuing on the same track of NASA and space, Margaret Hamilton was the Apollo project's first actual programmer. Hamilton became the director of software engineering at NASA in 1965, and she was also the person to first coin the term !

In the image above, she stands next to all the handwritten code that was used to send humanity to the moon. During the early stages of the project when she would speak of "sofware engineering", software development was not taken as seriously as other forms of engineering, and it wasn't regarded as a science, either. She wanted to legitimize software development as an engineering discipline, and overtime the term "software engineering" gained the same respect as any other technical discipline.

And lastly, if you're a woman in STEM, I want to highlight and celebrate you! Being a woman in a male dominated industry is not easy, we often suffer from sterotype threat and are not seen as our own individuals, but rather "the woman" in a room full of men. But just as these women, I'm sure you will achieve greatness!!

Here are some additional resources if you'd like to learn more:

https://www.history.com/news/coding-used-to-be-a-womans-job-so-it-was-paid-less-and-undervalued

https://digitalfuturesociety.com/programming-when-did-womens-work-become-a-mans-world/

And this was mainly my source for this post, but it's unfortunately only available in Swedish:

Thank you for reading ✨

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thursday 20/04/23

i literally only have to do 4 physics topics + astrophysics. totally going to try finish them tomorrow like a baller. today was awesome but i think the stress is getting to me- gonna meditate

♫ love galore - sza ♫

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