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If it actually bothers you, then do something about it. The author of these slides provided two versions of this material, one in prose (linked from my other c

by walrus 11y ago

If it actually bothers you, then do something about it. The author of these slides provided two versions of this material, one in prose (linked from my other comment in this thread) and these slides. Send a pull request to the XGBoost GitHub repo to update the prose version[1]. Once you're done with that, send an email to the author with the new images, non-abrasively explain why you're providing them, and politely ask the author to replace the slides on his website. Be sure to point out which slides need to be updated (8, 9, 24, 25, 28, 31) and which images go with which slides. It's possible your email will get ignored (PhD students are busy and don't necessarily have time to maintain two year old teaching material), but I'm almost certain the pull request will be merged. [1] https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/blob/master/doc/model.md https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/blob/master/doc/model.md PS: If you don't do this, I'll call you tone-deaf and lazy. ;)

bnjmn 11y ago
It actually does bother me, and I wish I had the time to fix it, but fixing it involves much more than the comically large amount of work you're asking of me: it means convincing this PhD student that he made a genuine mistake that betrays his sexism, and getting him to acknowledge that mistake by fixing his own slides. I wish the instructor was more aware of his own sexism when he created this material, so that neither he nor I nor anyone would have to fix this problem now. He chose this careless example, and so it's his responsibility to fix it, no matter how busy he may be as a PhD student. We're all busy, but these slides have his name on them, and demonstrating that he knows better now is something only he can do.
- Joof 11y ago
  Well, I could do it, change it to a more neutral example, then take a screenshot of your post and merge it to the repo. This would take maybe 2 hours (but I am familiar with git). Fixing it would go very far to prove that you are sincere about the problem and isn't a hell of a lot of work. Going that far to fix it is more likely to convince him that it actually matters than anything else you could do.

by walrus 11y ago

bnjmn 11y ago

It actually does bother me, and I wish I had the time to fix it, but fixing it involves much more than the comically large amount of work you're asking of me: it means convincing this PhD student that he made a genuine mistake that betrays his sexism, and getting him to acknowledge that mistake by fixing his own slides. I wish the instructor was more aware of his own sexism when he created this material, so that neither he nor I nor anyone would have to fix this problem now. He chose this careless example, and so it's his responsibility to fix it, no matter how busy he may be as a PhD student. We're all busy, but these slides have his name on them, and demonstrating that he knows better now is something only he can do.

Joof 11y ago
Well, I could do it, change it to a more neutral example, then take a screenshot of your post and merge it to the repo. This would take maybe 2 hours (but I am familiar with git). Fixing it would go very far to prove that you are sincere about the problem and isn't a hell of a lot of work. Going that far to fix it is more likely to convince him that it actually matters than anything else you could do.