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• ROW OVER AI THAT 'INTIFI GAY FAC'
• THE FAMO AI GAYDAR STUDY WAS REPEATED – AND, NO, N'T TELL IF YOU'RE STRAIGHT OR NOT JT OM YOUR FACE
• JT ANOTHER GAY VELOPPERANTOE FORT·FOLLOW6 M READ·FEB 13, 2018--3LISTENSHAREI HAVE BEEN THKG ABOUT WRG THIS POST FOR A LONG TIME, FIRST, NOT ONLY BEE ’S A MORE PERSONAL THAN TECHNIL ONE, BUT ALSO BEE ’S ONE OF THE SUBJECT THAT I DON’T REALLY TALK ABOUT WH -WORKER, BEE IS QUE ELS. BUT YEAH, SOME -WORKERS, OTHER VELOPERS OR LS-CLOSE IENDS DO ASK ME ABOUT THIS, SO LET’S JT MAKE ANOTHER MEDIUM POST BEE WHY NOT?!I AM 22, CURRENTLY LIVG MONTREAL AND WORKG AS A SOFTWARE VELOPPER. IN MY DAILY JOB I WRE PROGRAMS AND WEB APP. I E LANGAGE SUCH AS PYTHON, C++, JAVASCRIPT(NO, REACT) AND PHP(EHWWW I KNOW). I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN LOVE WH PROGRAMMG AND TECHNOLOGI GENERAL. I HAVE FOUND A WAY TO TURN FEW SKILLS TO EASY MONEY FIXG PUTERS OM SIBLGS AND NEIGHBOURS.THAT BEG SAID, I VERY LOVE MY JOB AND MY TEAM IS AWARE ABOUT WHAT I AM ABOUT TO SHARE TO THE LARGE WORLD OF THE INTER. BEE BY TALKG TO A LOT OF PEOPLE THE DTRY AND ALSO READG STUFF AROUND, I HAVE REALIZED THAT NOT A LOT OF THGS WERE DOCUMENTED ON THE PLACE OF HOMOSEXUAL MENS THE WORLD OF SOFTWARE VELOPMENT, EXCEPT A FEW REDD POSTS AND GAY GEEKS MEETGS. I MEAN, FAIR ENOUGH IS NICE TO HAVE THOSE KD OF MEETGS, BUT AN DTRY MOSTLY DRIVEN BY MALE DIVIDUALS, I AM ALWAYS SURPRISED WHEN SOME PEOPLE BE LIKE “OH, GAY VELOPPER, ’S NOT VERY MON.”.WELL I GUS THAT THE AMOUNT OF GAY MEN IS LS THE SOFTWARE DTRY THAN THE FASHN ONE (I KNOW ’S A VERY-VERY-VERY BIG GENERALIZATN), BUT YEAH, S.O TO ALL MY GAY BUDDI THE FIELD OF SOFTWARE VELOPMENT!I AM NOT THE MOST ‘GAY LOOKG’ GUY AROUND FOR SURE BUT I DO THK ’S NICE TO HAVE THIS KD OF DIFFERENCE.FEARG THE TO BE LABELED “THE GAY DEV”?I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN SUPER OPEN WH MY ORIENTATN, I THK JT MAK SOMETHG NICE TO TALK ABOUT WH -WORKERS. I ED TO BE THIS SUPER SHY GUY THAT WAS TRYG TO AVOID THE SUBJECT OF RELATNSHIP WH -WORKERS BEE, NO I DO NOT DATE GIRLS, BUT Y I DO HAVE FEELGS FOR HUMANS. AT THE BEGNG OF MY VERY 1 YEAR AND A HALF REER, I WAS SOMEHOW SRED TO BE LABELLED AS A “GAY VELOPPER”.I HAD THIS IA THAT EVERY DIFFERENCE THE FIELD OF TECHNOLOGY WAS THEN BEG A LABEL. BUT AS I GET TO KNOW MORE PROGRAMMERS THE TEAM I WAS WORKG, I THEN REALIZED THAT WAS ACTUALLY A THG I SHOULD NOT BE SRED TO TALK ABOUT. AS I WAS NOT SRED OR SHY TO TALK ABOUT THE FACT I WAS DATG BOYS WH MY IENDS AND FAY, NEHER I SHOULD BE SRED TO DO THE SAME THG WH -WORKERS.REMEMBERG MY FIRST FEW WEEKS MY JOB OF FULLSTACK, HLY OUT OF SCHOOL, AND JT TRYG TO FIGURED OUT HOW THIS -BASE WAS BUILT THE FIRST PANY I HAD JOED SEEMS LIKE FAR AWAY. BUT I STILL REMEMBER THAT EVERY TIM THE SUBJECT OF GIRLIENDS WAS BEG THROWN ON THE TABLE, I WAS BEG WEIRDLY UNFORTABLE, TRYG TO VENT SOME WEIRD STORY ON WHY “I WAS NOT VERY TERTED GOG OUT CLUBS ON IDAY EVEN IF GIRLS WERE AROUND!”.AS TOLD BEFORE, I AM NOT VERY LOOKG AS A “GAY” BOY, FOR WHATEVER MEANS, THE MOST MON SENTENCE I RECEIVE IS ALWAYS “OH I WOULD HAVE NEVER THOUGH…”. I MEAN, I LOVE TO LISTEN TO RAP MIC, I DRS KD OF WELL, BUT NOT SUPER-WELL, I DO NOT LOVE SHOPPG AND MY HAIRS ARE OFTEN A BIG MS. PL: I VERY SUCK AT SIGN AND ARTS GENERAL, AND I WEAR BAGGY-HOODY THAT I SOMETIME LAZILY TRA FOR PLA BLACK-CREW-NECK UPON CUTE LOGO DRIVEN SHIRT WHEN FEELG FANCY.ONE NIGHT, AT THE END OF SUMMER, I REMEMBER HAVG A B TOO MUCH BEER AND THAN STARTED TO TALK TO A PROGRAMMG IEND OF ME ABOUT HOW I WOULD LIKE MY WORKERS TO KNOW THIS OTHER SI OF ME.NOT BEG SHARED TO TALK ABOUT !IT ALL BEGAN WH A KD OF WEIRD SUATN, WHEN A -WORKER ASKED ME IF I HAD A GIRLIEND, SOMEHOW AS A JOKE… AND I JT TOLD, QUE DIRECTLY “I DATE BOY”. AND SO OTHER PEOPLE THE OFFICE WERE LIKE, “NOT SAYG ANYTHG, BUT WANTG TO SAY SOMETHG, BUT NOW KNOWG WHAT TO SAY”. AND THEN, AS I WAS JT FEELG THIS KD OF “OHH ’S A BIG MOMENT THAT JT HAPPENED, LET’S SAY SOMETHG”. I JT REPLIED TO THIS AWKWARD SILENCE WH THE ANSWER TO MYSELF SOMETHG LIKE“NO WORRI, EVERY OF MY IENDS KNOWS , MY FAY TOO, BUT I WAS JT NOT REALLY EXPECTG TO TALK ABOUT AT MY JOB. BUT AS YOU TALK A LOT ABOUT YOUR RELATNS AND STUFF, I WANTED TO TELL YOU, BEE I DO DATE, BUT NOT GIRLS. SO JT TRA ‘GIRL’ FOR ‘BOY’ ”.AND THEN…
• WHERE ARE ALL THE GAY SOFTWARE ENGEERS?
• 'I WAS SHOCKED WAS SO EASY': ​MEET THE PROFSOR WHO SAYS FACIAL REGNN ​​N TELL IF YOU'RE GAY
• DIGAL IC NOT BANNED OVER GAY SEX IMAG, SAYS IOS APP PUBLISHER
• BT GAY DATG APPS FOR HOOKUPS, RELATNSHIPS, AND EVERYTHG BETWEEN
• DOWNLOAD GAY - BT SOFTWARE & APPS

ROW OVER AI THAT 'INTIFI GAY FAC'

Meyer is days, engeers and the anizatns that employ them may accept the need to diversify the profsn terms of race, genr, relign, and physil abili, but sexual orientatn remas a prickly topic�wns the recent ntroversy over gay marriage the U. He rells male classmat engeerg school jokg about gays ont of him, obliv to his sexual orientatn. Thgs might be tougher for gay men engeerg, a profsn that is tradnally "whe, male, and nservative, " Meyer says, bee "gay [men] are stereotypilly nsired feme and weak and more to artsy stuff.

C., advocy anizatn for the gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr (GLBT) muny, attus are shiftg. " Many high-tech employers, for example, now clu gays and lbians their diversy 's still room for improvement, though.

In the HRC x, most of the tech employers that offer benefs to gays (such as health-re verage for domtic partners) still don't clu transgenred dividuals their equal-employment polici. Workplace, as society, gays and lbians are not yet regnized as a group that serv benefs and legal protectn. "It is still legal 36 stat to fire employe who are gay, " says Daryl Herrschaft, puty director of HRC's WorkNet, a program that provis up-to-date rmatn on workplace polici and laws throughout the Uned Stat.

THE FAMO AI GAYDAR STUDY WAS REPEATED – AND, NO, N'T TELL IF YOU'RE STRAIGHT OR NOT JT OM YOUR FACE

" Even though she hadn't seen overt discrimatn, she didn't tell -workers she was a lbian, bee she didn't feel that most people were aware of, and fortable wh, gay and lbian today are much more acceptg of the GLBT muny, Icenogle says. "Icenogle is now chair of Lucent's GLBT support group, where gay employe n raise workplace issu of tert to them.

To ensure that other nongay employe bee faiar wh GLBT issu, Icenogle suggts that pani clu sexual orientatn their diversy trag programs, as well as provi workshops and talks on gay issu for all employe and their fai and social attus regardg sexualy change, employers will evably have to adapt. "Younger people are more aware of their sexualy, and are g out more and more, " not Barbara Belmont, treasurer of the Natnal Organizatn for Gay and Lbian Scientists and Technil Profsnals Inc., a group that works to elimate discrimatn agast homosexuals. Timothy Meyer, for one, believ attus toward gays will ntue to improve.

Image source, Stanford UniversyImage ptn, The study created pose fac judged most and least likely to belong to homosexualsA facial regnn experiment that claims to be able to distguish between gay and heterosexual people has sparked a row between s creators and two leadg LGBT rights Stanford Universy study claims s software regnis facial featur relatg to sexual orientatn that are not perceived by human work has been acced of beg "dangero" and "junk science" the scientists volved say the are "knee-jerk" reactns. Details of the peer-reviewed project are due to be published the Journal of Personaly and Social jawsFor their study, the rearchers traed an algorhm g the photos of more than 14, 000 whe Amerins taken om a datg ed between one and five of each person's pictur and took people's sexualy as self-reported on the datg rearchers said the rultg software appeared to be able to distguish between gay and heterosexual men and women. In one tt, when the algorhm was prented wh two photos where one picture was fely of a gay man and the other heterosexual, was able to terme which was which 81% of the women, the figure was 71%.

JT ANOTHER GAY VELOPPERANTOE FORT·FOLLOW6 M READ·FEB 13, 2018--3LISTENSHAREI HAVE BEEN THKG ABOUT WRG THIS POST FOR A LONG TIME, FIRST, NOT ONLY BEE ’S A MORE PERSONAL THAN TECHNIL ONE, BUT ALSO BEE ’S ONE OF THE SUBJECT THAT I DON’T REALLY TALK ABOUT WH -WORKER, BEE IS QUE ELS. BUT YEAH, SOME -WORKERS, OTHER VELOPERS OR LS-CLOSE IENDS DO ASK ME ABOUT THIS, SO LET’S JT MAKE ANOTHER MEDIUM POST BEE WHY NOT?!I AM 22, CURRENTLY LIVG MONTREAL AND WORKG AS A SOFTWARE VELOPPER. IN MY DAILY JOB I WRE PROGRAMS AND WEB APP. I E LANGAGE SUCH AS PYTHON, C++, JAVASCRIPT(NO, REACT) AND PHP(EHWWW I KNOW). I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN LOVE WH PROGRAMMG AND TECHNOLOGI GENERAL. I HAVE FOUND A WAY TO TURN FEW SKILLS TO EASY MONEY FIXG PUTERS OM SIBLGS AND NEIGHBOURS.THAT BEG SAID, I VERY LOVE MY JOB AND MY TEAM IS AWARE ABOUT WHAT I AM ABOUT TO SHARE TO THE LARGE WORLD OF THE INTER. BEE BY TALKG TO A LOT OF PEOPLE THE DTRY AND ALSO READG STUFF AROUND, I HAVE REALIZED THAT NOT A LOT OF THGS WERE DOCUMENTED ON THE PLACE OF HOMOSEXUAL MENS THE WORLD OF SOFTWARE VELOPMENT, EXCEPT A FEW REDD POSTS AND GAY GEEKS MEETGS. I MEAN, FAIR ENOUGH IS NICE TO HAVE THOSE KD OF MEETGS, BUT AN DTRY MOSTLY DRIVEN BY MALE DIVIDUALS, I AM ALWAYS SURPRISED WHEN SOME PEOPLE BE LIKE “OH, GAY VELOPPER, ’S NOT VERY MON.”.WELL I GUS THAT THE AMOUNT OF GAY MEN IS LS THE SOFTWARE DTRY THAN THE FASHN ONE (I KNOW ’S A VERY-VERY-VERY BIG GENERALIZATN), BUT YEAH, S.O TO ALL MY GAY BUDDI THE FIELD OF SOFTWARE VELOPMENT!I AM NOT THE MOST ‘GAY LOOKG’ GUY AROUND FOR SURE BUT I DO THK ’S NICE TO HAVE THIS KD OF DIFFERENCE.FEARG THE TO BE LABELED “THE GAY DEV”?I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN SUPER OPEN WH MY ORIENTATN, I THK JT MAK SOMETHG NICE TO TALK ABOUT WH -WORKERS. I ED TO BE THIS SUPER SHY GUY THAT WAS TRYG TO AVOID THE SUBJECT OF RELATNSHIP WH -WORKERS BEE, NO I DO NOT DATE GIRLS, BUT Y I DO HAVE FEELGS FOR HUMANS. AT THE BEGNG OF MY VERY 1 YEAR AND A HALF REER, I WAS SOMEHOW SRED TO BE LABELLED AS A “GAY VELOPPER”.I HAD THIS IA THAT EVERY DIFFERENCE THE FIELD OF TECHNOLOGY WAS THEN BEG A LABEL. BUT AS I GET TO KNOW MORE PROGRAMMERS THE TEAM I WAS WORKG, I THEN REALIZED THAT WAS ACTUALLY A THG I SHOULD NOT BE SRED TO TALK ABOUT. AS I WAS NOT SRED OR SHY TO TALK ABOUT THE FACT I WAS DATG BOYS WH MY IENDS AND FAY, NEHER I SHOULD BE SRED TO DO THE SAME THG WH -WORKERS.REMEMBERG MY FIRST FEW WEEKS MY JOB OF FULLSTACK, HLY OUT OF SCHOOL, AND JT TRYG TO FIGURED OUT HOW THIS -BASE WAS BUILT THE FIRST PANY I HAD JOED SEEMS LIKE FAR AWAY. BUT I STILL REMEMBER THAT EVERY TIM THE SUBJECT OF GIRLIENDS WAS BEG THROWN ON THE TABLE, I WAS BEG WEIRDLY UNFORTABLE, TRYG TO VENT SOME WEIRD STORY ON WHY “I WAS NOT VERY TERTED GOG OUT CLUBS ON IDAY EVEN IF GIRLS WERE AROUND!”.AS TOLD BEFORE, I AM NOT VERY LOOKG AS A “GAY” BOY, FOR WHATEVER MEANS, THE MOST MON SENTENCE I RECEIVE IS ALWAYS “OH I WOULD HAVE NEVER THOUGH…”. I MEAN, I LOVE TO LISTEN TO RAP MIC, I DRS KD OF WELL, BUT NOT SUPER-WELL, I DO NOT LOVE SHOPPG AND MY HAIRS ARE OFTEN A BIG MS. PL: I VERY SUCK AT SIGN AND ARTS GENERAL, AND I WEAR BAGGY-HOODY THAT I SOMETIME LAZILY TRA FOR PLA BLACK-CREW-NECK UPON CUTE LOGO DRIVEN SHIRT WHEN FEELG FANCY.ONE NIGHT, AT THE END OF SUMMER, I REMEMBER HAVG A B TOO MUCH BEER AND THAN STARTED TO TALK TO A PROGRAMMG IEND OF ME ABOUT HOW I WOULD LIKE MY WORKERS TO KNOW THIS OTHER SI OF ME.NOT BEG SHARED TO TALK ABOUT !IT ALL BEGAN WH A KD OF WEIRD SUATN, WHEN A -WORKER ASKED ME IF I HAD A GIRLIEND, SOMEHOW AS A JOKE… AND I JT TOLD, QUE DIRECTLY “I DATE BOY”. AND SO OTHER PEOPLE THE OFFICE WERE LIKE, “NOT SAYG ANYTHG, BUT WANTG TO SAY SOMETHG, BUT NOW KNOWG WHAT TO SAY”. AND THEN, AS I WAS JT FEELG THIS KD OF “OHH ’S A BIG MOMENT THAT JT HAPPENED, LET’S SAY SOMETHG”. I JT REPLIED TO THIS AWKWARD SILENCE WH THE ANSWER TO MYSELF SOMETHG LIKE“NO WORRI, EVERY OF MY IENDS KNOWS , MY FAY TOO, BUT I WAS JT NOT REALLY EXPECTG TO TALK ABOUT AT MY JOB. BUT AS YOU TALK A LOT ABOUT YOUR RELATNS AND STUFF, I WANTED TO TELL YOU, BEE I DO DATE, BUT NOT GIRLS. SO JT TRA ‘GIRL’ FOR ‘BOY’ ”.AND THEN…

"Gay fac tend to be genr atypil, " the rearchers said. "Gay men had narrower jaws and longer nos, while lbians had larger jaws.

"But their software did not perform as well other suatns, cludg a tt which was given photos of 70 gay men and 930 heterosexual asked to pick 100 men "most likely to be gay" missed 23 of s summary of the study, the Enomist - which was first to report the rearch - poted to several "limatns" cludg a ncentratn on whe Amerins and the e of datg se pictur, which were "likely to be particularly revealg of sexual orientatn". "This rearch isn't science or news, but 's a scriptn of bety standards on datg s that ignor huge segments of the LGBTQ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer/qutng) muny, cludg people of lour, transgenr people, olr dividuals, and other LGBTQ people who don't want to post photos on datg s, " said Jim Halloran, chief digal officer of Glaad, a media-monorg body.

"The reckls fdgs uld serve as a weapon to harm both heterosexuals who are accurately outed, as well as gay and lbian people who are suatns where g out is dangero. "The 'subtle' differenc uld be a nsequence of gay and straight people choosg to portray themselv systematilly different ways, rather than differenc facial appearance self, " said Prof Benedict Jon, who ns the Face Rearch Lab at the Universy of was also important, he said, for the technil tails of the analysis algorhm to be published to see if they stood up to rmed cricism. There has been a nsirable stggle of acceptance for lbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenr, queer, tersex, asexual (LGBTQIA), and other margalized genrs.

WHERE ARE ALL THE GAY SOFTWARE ENGEERS?

In 2014, Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, beme the first lear of a major pany to e out as gay. In an edorial for Bloomberg Bs, Tim publicly me out, sayg, "I'm proud to be gay, and I nsir beg gay among the greatt gifts God has given me.

'I WAS SHOCKED WAS SO EASY': ​MEET THE PROFSOR WHO SAYS FACIAL REGNN ​​N TELL IF YOU'RE GAY

However, he eventually overme his fear and intified himself as gay. In 2012, Jon me out as gay on the birthday of mathematician Alan Turg. He even noted, “Computer science was a haven for homosexuals, transsexuals, and a lot of other sexuals, mostly bee the history of the science lled for fairly telligent, morn-thkg people.

In 2009, Tim, who had long gone public that he was gay, got married to Stt Miller and has ntued to advote for the of the LGBTQ muny. He was among the first openly gay person on the Forb 400 list of Ameri's wealthit people. Tim created a nonprof “The Gill Foundatn’ 1994 after Colorado passed an amendment that outlawed civil rights protectns for gays and lbians.

David has been openly gay and nsistently regnized for his ntributns to the tech world and the LGBTQIA muny. They are lled the gay power uple and have been active same-sex advocy.

DIGAL IC NOT BANNED OVER GAY SEX IMAG, SAYS IOS APP PUBLISHER

He is the founr of Grdr, the social workg app for gay, bi, trans, and queer people. He had exprsed that his reason for foundg the pany was his sire to create a muny for gay men.

Others were worried about homophobic behavrs om their lleagu bee people dislike what they do not unrstand.

BT GAY DATG APPS FOR HOOKUPS, RELATNSHIPS, AND EVERYTHG BETWEEN

Unsurprisgly, that origal work kicked up a massive fs at the time, wh many skeptil that puters, which have zero knowledge or unrstandg of somethg as plex as sexualy, uld really predict whether someone was gay or straight om their fizzog.

The Stanford eggheads behd that first rearch – Yilun Wang, a graduate stunt, and Michal Kosski, an associate profsor – even claimed that not only uld nral works ss out a person’s sexual orientatn, algorhms had an even better gaydar than humans. Notably, straight women were more likely to wear eye shadow than gay women Wang and Kosski’s dataset. Straight men were more likely to wear glass than gay men.

So, do this mean that AI really n tell if someone is gay or straight om their face? It would mean that blogil factors such as a person’s facial stcture would dite whether someone was gay or not.

DOWNLOAD GAY - BT SOFTWARE & APPS

“The paper propos replitg the origal 'gay fac' study a way that addrs ncerns about social factors fluencg the classifier.

In some untri, homosexualy is illegal, so the technology uld endanger people’s liv if ed by thori to "out" and ta spected gay folk. “Moreover, this entire le of thought is premised on the ia that there is value to be gaed workg out why 'gay face' classifiers might work – value further scribg, fg and settg out the methodology for any tpot dictator or bigot wh a puter who might want to opprs queer people. Bee by talkg to a lot of people the dtry and also readg stuff around, I have realized that not a lot of thgs were documented on the place of homosexual mens the world of software velopment, except a few Redd posts and Gay Geeks meetgs.