Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org
- Siva Afi
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- https://www.cascadia9game.org/
CS professor, game designer, and fire dancer ordinaire.
Joined Aug 2018
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Since beginning in 16th century Europe, capitalism worsened mass living standards often below subsistence there & worse in rest of world. Living standards rose only in late 19/20th centuries when labor, socialist, anti-colonial movements made it https://phys.org/news/2022-09-expansion-capitalism-deterioration-human-welfare.html
After nearly a year of silence, I suddenly got three more sales of my Siva Afi card game!
@tripu Yes, higher ed is very different from K-12, both in terms of pay and gender ratio. I make much more than a public school teacher and vastly less than I would as a software developer.
I agree that my statement is almost certainly not literally true. Still, I think I've had students going into the tech industry right out of college that make more than some of the "good pay" salaries listed in the article.
@tripu Interesting. As a computer science professor, I might be said to be at the intersection of STEM and HEAL.
A key point in the article is that "some HEAL jobs do not pay that well." Given the numbers Reeves lists, it would not be much of an exaggeration to say that the highest-paying jobs in HEAL pay less than the lowest-paying jobs in STEM.
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THIS.
> _“We need a massive […] effort to **get men to move into jobs in the growing fields of health, education, administration, and literacy (HEAL)**, equivalent to the successful campaign to get women into STEM.”_
> _“There are three pressing reasons to get more #men into #HEAL.”_
> _“First, given the decline in traditional male occupations, men need to look to these sectors for jobs. Blue collar jobs are disappearing. There will be more STEM jobs, too — but these are much smaller occupations. #STEM accounts for only about 7% of all jobs, compared to 23% in HEAL.”_
> _“The second reason […] is to help meet labor shortages in critical occupations. Almost half of all registered nurses are now over the age of 50. […] We face labor shortages in two of the largest and most important sectors of our economy — health care and #education. But we are trying to solve them with only half the workforce.”_
> _“The third argument […] is to provide a better service to #boys and men. Many would prefer to be cared for by a man, especially in certain circumstances. Consider the case of a man in need of help using the bathroom in a hospital or care home, or the middle-aged man needing a therapist to help with his addiction to pornography, or the fatherless teenage boy needing help from a psychologist with their substance abuse. It is not ideal if most substance abuse counselors are women (76%) when most substance abusers are men (67%), or that most special education teachers are women (84%) when most students being referred to special education are male (64%).”_
> _“Getting more men into HEAL occupations would be good for men, good for the professions, and good for clients — a win-win-win.”_
— [Richard Reeves](https://ofboysandmen.substack.com/p/men-can-heal)
It turns out there is an American #Cornhole League.
https://www.iplaycornhole.com/
Among other things, "The ACL created certification standards for three levels of equipment that players and enthusiants can use when making cornhole equipment purchase decisions."
September is #NationalPreparednessMonth
Do you have a plan in case of #disaster? Do you have a kit?
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Happy National Punctuation Day!
If you were a punctuation mark, which one would you be?
@grammargirl I would be a section sign §, because I'm always trying to figure out how to organize concepts.
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Apparently, I really took it to heart when I heard the first teacher say, “If you have a question, it means other people likely also have the question and are just afraid to ask.”
Well then…I’m here to help!
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#2676 Historical Dates
Evidence suggests the 1899 transactions occurred as part of a global event centered around a deity associated with the lotus flower.
https://xkcd.com/2676/
#WeirdEtsyFinds: The Spamjo, a musical instrument made from a Spam can
https://www.etsy.com/listing/150732694/spamjo-canjo-cigarbox-guitar-banjo
Comedy engineer: Can we do anything with "Racoon Tycoon"?
Internet: That's already the name of a board game.
CE: Basoon Tycoon?
I: Someone on Instagram already got there.
CE: Brigadoon Tycoon? That has to be original, right?
CE: OH COME ON!
@matt1126 Ah, good point! It is mutate, not the pipe, that is doing this. That's why this works:
mutate(b, m=mean(post, na.rm=TRUE))
Achievement unlocked: Wrote a #Haskell program that passes the type system but still contains a bug.
I thought the reason b %>% mean(post) didn't work is that mean doesn't expect a tibble as its first argument, but the pipe gives it one.
@matt1126 ... but I can't just refer to post at the top level, while I can refer to x. "post" looks like a variable name, but it's only available inside the argument list of certain functions.
Maybe I can think of the pipe as doing TWO things:
- feeding an implicit first argument into the next function, and
- locally defining all columns of the tibble as variables
@matt1126 Okay, I can wrap my head around that.
If I use a name that's NOT a column name in b, mutate DOESN'T make this substitution:
x <- c(1, 2, 3, 4)
b %>% mutate(m=mean(x, na.rm=TRUE))
This context sensitivity still feels wrong, but at least now I have a workable mental model of what's going on. Thanks!
- Siva Afi
- https://tgc.link/siva-afi
- Cascadia 9.0
- https://www.cascadia9game.org/
CS professor, game designer, and fire dancer ordinaire.
Joined Aug 2018
