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bit_user Gah, my first thought upon seeing the headline was that it was some sort of Nvidia event! I never liked their idea to use people's first names for their CPUs. And, as I predicted, they eventually had configurations paring a Grace CPU with a Blackwell GPU. Who is Grace Blackwell? Nobody of note. Dumb. Reply
usertests “Contributions and grants” fell from $11.2 million in 2023 to just $724,350 in 2024. Attendance also was in decline — from 29,000 in 2023 to 17,000 in 2024 — counting in-person and virtual attendees. The 2024 filing put GHC’s own expenses at $26.9 million against $22.4 million in revenue. The conference's 2024 gap suggests a pattern that may have worsened. Something big must have happened in 2023 to cause contributions to plummet by 93% and attendance by over 40%. 'You could feel the cutthroatness': Droves of men took over this women's tech fair An event meant to be a career-builder for women and nonbinary tech workers turned into yet another symbol of the industry's gender imbalance after self-identifying men showed up in droves. Several conference-goers told NPR there was a 40/60 ratio of men to women, especially at the career expo. "From what I'd heard, I was expecting maybe half a percent to 1% of the attendees would male," said Morgan Young, a computer science student at the University of Nevada, Reno who also creates content for early-career tech workers on social media. "I heard it was like the Coachella of tech for women. It's supposed to be fun and collaborative," she told NPR in an interview this week. "But the vibe was so different. You could feel the cutthroatness in the air." Some of the attendees had lied about their gender identity on their conference registrations, said Cullen White, the chief impact officer with AnitaB.org, the nonprofit that organizes the conference. In one of those lines, she said she heard a group of men casually using misogynistic slurs in her native language, Hindi. In another, she watched a group of men splinter off to make a new line, effectively cutting the other people who'd been waiting patiently. Yeah, that'll do it. Murdered by various "trends". 3 years later and now you don't get to have a coding career anymore. RIP. The AI industry is booming. Women are getting left behind Reply
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