Women + Math = Disaster
Harvard University has produced many great men of higher learning since it has been in business. They know who they are. I don’t need to mention any of them here — probably a bunch of presidents and whatnot, all of us men know how the game works. That’s not what’s up for debate.
Actually nothing is up for debate. The head of Harvard University said at a conference recently that women suck at math and science. What he did was grant all women an honorary PhD in In Your Face-onomics.
The point he was trying to make was simple: when it comes to math or science or using your brain, men are using the cream of the crop of brains — the top shelf. We are driving high performance thinking machines. We are moving mountains of thought with our mighty man-brains which operate like huge construction machinery.
Women, the headmaster of America’s top university is saying, are using brains that resemble a broken tricycle one might find at a garage sale in the bad part of town. Women’s brains reek of tetanus and squeak like a hamster wheel.
I checked around for an exact quote from the esteemed president of Harvard: Lawrence “The Never-ending” Summers, but I couldn’t find one. This is probably what he said though:
“Women couldn’t do math even if it tasted like chocolate.”
The fact that he’s right in every way didn’t keep fore-running members of the woman community from throwing major hissy-fits the second the words left his mouth. I’m sure they had been lying in wait for such a baseless, yet socially imposed social faux pas — like rats lurking under the picnic tables at the county fair. That’s how women behave when they land themselves in an industry where good looks and cock teasing won’t save their ass: the man-realm of science.
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May 7th, 2006 at 11:46 pm - IP Man-Hash: f2a1311f766b9
Well, join Harvard as they are certainly going to bastardise maths just to ensure that Women succeed(sic). Women have 50 Million dollars to spend just to force the system to ensure it, while your selfish sex again attempts to apply the “supremist women” feminist propoganda and destroy any semblance of honour and dignity that being a mathematician may have had.
Let’s destroy it, as men are better at it than women, it’s the only motivation.
They will probably succeed I would imagine, with that amount of money to blow, how much will that discipiline and society as a whole have to suffer just so women can prove an already foregone conclusion.
Women’s selfishness knows no bounds or limitations.
June 5th, 2006 at 1:22 pm - IP Man-Hash: 980cc8a8ac1a7
How typically female. And for what? How come you’d be hard pressed to see real men saying such things?
Indeed. My mom said that to my father a couple of times. And some other stuff, much worse.
How she now repents and cries and regrets how she ever wronged him. Hardlz a daz passes without her mentioning him.
In 25 years of marriage till he gone he never once raised his hand against her, spoke ill of/to her or cheated on her. Then again this is the oldest part of the old continent, not the states.
If you find out what a man and marriage truly mean you too will likely outlive to regret those words.
And about men, women and maths. My personal opinion is that it’s much easier to learn what others thought out before and for you than to discover/invent for yourself and posterity.
In other words, men think, reason, research and as such discover and invent whereas women find themselves hard pressed to even just study and learn from some of what has been found. When they sometimes do achieve academic distinction they think they epitomise the genius that is woman, having learnt knowledge almost entirely gathered and collected by men.
That so few discoveries and inventions are the direct results of women’s intellectual labour is, of course, the evil work of the misogynistic conspiracy of patriarchal rule the blatantly dictates throughout the world in the detriment of women ever since having stolen over the rule from the earlier, superior, matriarchal system, countless eons ago. Just ask any feminist for further clarification.
BTW, currently working on coming up with a formula for the area of overlap between 2 arbitrary triangles of known tip coordinates. First step is coming up with one for the area of overlap between 2 right angle, axis aligned triangles.
To do this one must use abs() function extensively to mimic decisional blocks and create right angle, axis aligned bounding boxes for both triangles. This involves finding the min. & max. x and y cords. respectively for both triangles. You must do this WITHOUT using ifs.
Find the tip that is the right angle tip for both the 2 triangles.
You must do this WITHOUT using ifs.
Find the overlap bounding box that is the overlap area between the 2 triangles’s bounding boxes. calculate intersections between the 2 hypos and the overlap bound box.
Lots more quintessential geek stuff…
Much cooler than small enterprise economics, accounting, management and other crap they stuff us with at faculty. IMHO Anyway.
While chicks aced every subject throughout junior, mid and high school I was busy reinventing stuff like rotation, translation, ray tracing, texture mapping, perspective, parallel and fish-eye projection equations. I actually made a software rendering wireframe 3D engine back in 12th grade.
Lots of controllable parameters and features including variable view angle, translation, rotation and scaling transformations of the wireframe, etc.
And for my troubles got an “A grade diploma” stating I can “use a PC”. Just like some of the chicks in class that made websites featuring missing pics due to fixed referencing links and other kewl stuff.
Perhaps I have now bored your puny female intellects using my manly superior and elegantly geekish cognitive abilities enough that you’ll finally remove thy selves from this domain and leaves us be?
Course, this is not intellectual prowess. That would mean hunting down the best sales at the local mall. This is just being a geek, course. Long rant over.
sv_geekmode 0
June 5th, 2006 at 1:48 pm - IP Man-Hash: 49c9ff889fded
hate to go off topic but that triangle stuff is pretty cool.
Ran that through excel using if statements. Overlap? yes/no. If there are six corners in the resulting shape the overlap is a trapezoid. If there are seven corners than the overlap result is a triangle. Use tip coords and slope formulas to determine crossover points with new coords. Intellectually easy just takes a bit of grunt work.
Without IF statements? Damn. That is just showing off.
Question, why do you assume right triangles?
June 5th, 2006 at 2:15 pm - IP Man-Hash: 76cebfba7c181
Well he did so (including the co-axial requirement) because it’s one of the easier general cases, especially if he wants to eliminate IF statements. It does limit the number of sides of the resulting intersection.
Indeed, biff, one can see 6, 5, 4 and 3 sided intersectional objects with area. 2, 1 and zero sided as 0 area. Good analysis even if you are also a digital man.
I find the way you phrased the problem very interesting, sonyad. Back in my day (grumpy old man in his 30’s), we’d never have spoken of tip coordinates; it would have simply been lengths and angles.
Your way is strange in the analog world, but makes enormous sense in the digital world. Fascinating to see the changes in even problem expression as a result of going digital.
Back on topic.
Welcome to the site, sonyad. Enjoy.
MABTW.
-wolfe
June 5th, 2006 at 4:44 pm - IP Man-Hash: 980cc8a8ac1a7
I assume right angle axis aligned triangles because you can break an arbitrary triangle’s area to the sum of the areas of 4 triangles minus the sum of a 5th triangle. All these 5 triangles are right angle, axis aligned triangles. So after solving the problem for this specific case of triangles overlap I can use the formula to develop a formula for 2 arbitrary triangles. See the link.
The reason I avoid if statements is that I primarily want a math. solution that I can code if I wish. I would not be able to derive a formula from an algorithm for this particular problem.
Also, an algorithm would run differently (variable computation cost) according to how complex a particular overlap case might be, because of loops in the algorithm. A formula would cost the same many operations every single time.
Also, one can more easily shrink a formula to its simplest possible form than an algorithm and this form might be less computationally expensive than an algorithm for the same problem.
Doing away with if statements is needed to obtain a mathematical formula for this. Instead you simply must use the abs() function. For example:
min(a,b)=(a+b-abs(a-b))/2
min(a,b)=a+b-max(a,b)
max(a,b)=(a+b+abs(a-b))/2
min(a,b)=a+b-min(a,b)
HMR(a,b)=(b-a+abs(b-a))/2 {How much to the right b is from a, returns 0 if b
June 5th, 2006 at 4:45 pm - IP Man-Hash: 980cc8a8ac1a7
forgot it…
June 5th, 2006 at 9:02 pm - IP Man-Hash: 49c9ff889fded
Back in my day all we had was an HP48GX and a fistfull of number twos. And damn it, we liked it.
(grumpy old guy in your 30’s, that was good)
June 5th, 2006 at 9:47 pm - IP Man-Hash: ee58a00bb64be
A woman cries because we dont comprehend her writing.
No Carla it’s not that we can’t comprehend but that you bored the hell out of us with your femibabel. It’s obvious that I had no interest in Grammar, give me science, history or Math, those were interesting subjects. Maybe if I didn’t have such boring English teachers(females) I may have had a chance.
Notice When Wolfe and Sonyad write they say many things with the least amount of words and when women write they use many words and say very little and this equates to femibabel(Yawns) aka Trivial Drivel.
This is another reason men are better than women.
Watching cops the other night and this Dyke was arresting a crack dealer. It took her 2 minutes to warn him not to move and a man would have said it firmly in 3 seconds “Move and you’ve had it”
She gave him several opportunities to knock her out and run.
Fortunately for her he didn’t try it. Another reason women shouldn’t be cops. Men are better than women at it.
Another example would be two battlefields one with men and one with women.
A man yells “INCOMING” and all the guys hit the foxholes and live.
A woman sceams “Listen everyone, that sound like ballistic missles heading our way… Maybe we shoul….” BOOOM half of them die.
Women use too many words to say so little.
Seriously women are boring except when they are young and naked.
So Ladies do the right thing and get naked and make us some sandwiches. In the meantime Shut the hell up, men are talking.
If it looks like I said too much it’s because it takes many words for women to understand simple things.
October 18th, 2006 at 10:44 am - IP Man-Hash: 03a48ee4c15f9
What are you an idiot? Everyone knows they don’t have garage sales in the bad part of town!
October 18th, 2006 at 1:50 pm - IP Man-Hash: 43908f8ff86fc
Damn Straight. I lived in the bad part of town after my separation and had lots of awesome stuff on sale - name brand kids clothes right before school started good - and no one came. :-(
October 18th, 2006 at 6:14 pm - IP Man-Hash: 259ef8b62ff1e
Kids don’t need brand name clothes. In fact, kids don’t want brand name clothes. Stop teaching your children conspicuous consumption, you silly cow.
October 18th, 2006 at 7:08 pm - IP Man-Hash: 93b55cdd43f53
Admit it lyingwhore thier was no seperation you got kicked out on your ass for being a cheating slut. and a worthless lying whore.
you probably drink too much, and have troubles both shutting your mouth and doing what your told.
either way your a lying_whore good to see you accept the truth for a change.
now if you could only convince the rest of the stupid cunts to face facts.
October 22nd, 2006 at 11:37 am - IP Man-Hash: c7a7f3a87c7cc
True, in general, men are better at math than women, but don’t forget that it’s not always true. I actually do really well in math, and science, for that matter. I am a horrible writer, which is supposedly what women are good at.
October 22nd, 2006 at 12:05 pm - IP Man-Hash: c7a298151bcdd
i read somewhere that a large percentage of girls lose interest in math after 6th grade [i think its 6th grade.. may be 5th]. i know i used to love math myself until middle school, when i realized how much more i loved writing/reading. dont know why this trend is. why so many girls lose interest in math, as well as science, at this young age. but that stats show this is really happening.
October 22nd, 2006 at 1:01 pm - IP Man-Hash: 2743dcf9ed370
It is because math and science require intelligence, logic and hard work. Women like hard work much in the same way that muslims like pork products.
October 22nd, 2006 at 3:44 pm - IP Man-Hash: 1f4c05429802d
That explains your poorly constructed and worthless comment. Fuck off my website.
-Dick
October 22nd, 2006 at 8:38 pm - IP Man-Hash: 51d4b8bcde989
October 30th, 2006 at 8:51 pm - IP Man-Hash: c7a298151bcdd
Women are quicker than men at carrying out a primitive, instant judgement type of maths, according to the worlds largest mathematics experiment.
In the past few years scientists have found that bees, rats, lions, birds and other creatures can keep track of numbers and work out basic arithmetic. Now this fundamental skill has been compared among men and women by At-Bristol, the south-wests leading science centre, offering an insight into why girls tend to do better than boys at arithmetic at primary school, and why boys are more at risk of dyscalculia, a basic problem with mathematics akin to dyslexia.
The experiment on 20,000 people was developed by Prof Brian Butterworth and his team at University College London, in collaboration with Dr Penny Fidler, At-Bristols neuroscientist. The new results reveal that the brain has two distinct mechanisms for doing maths, solving a question that has puzzled scientists since 1949, said Prof Butterworth.
The first mechanism is the type of instant judgement made when viewing three coins on a table. The viewer instantly knows that there are three without counting, an ability most of us were born with. The second type is the maths people are taught, including counting, addition, subtraction and multiplication.
Due to the very large number of people taking part in the experiment, Prof Butterworth was able to look at overall trends, revealing that women are quicker than men at instant maths. The experiment, which involved displays of dots, suggested that there are actually two processes at play: what is called subitizing, for instant recognition, and counting.
For one to three dots, but not for four to 10 dots, female subjects were slightly, but significantly faster than male subjects, said Prof Butterworth. Because our results suggest that there are sex-linked differences in subitizing abilities (females are slightly better), the human genome may code for building a specific neural mechanism for subitizing. (15th September 2003)
October 30th, 2006 at 10:23 pm - IP Man-Hash: 3021e144c12b0
Meow you should be faster at counting the seconds it takes to get you stupid ass off this site then.
October 30th, 2006 at 11:51 pm - IP Man-Hash: adf74f2589c44
Meow, none of that is true. Fuck off my website.
-Dick