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Simone Giertz makes a living creating shitty robots (2016) [video]
- aalleavitch 9y agoI definitely have a crush on her.
- snakeboy 9y agoFrom the video: > I would much rather be acknowledged for the work that I do rather than being a woman doing the type of work that I do.
- Pxtl 9y agoJust think of the appalling number of propositions she must get every day, what with being a nerd dream-girl and all.
- cantrip 9y ago"nerd dream-girl" whatever you mean by that has little to do with it. She's a woman on the Internet so she is sexually harassed. She's a woman in the world so she is sexually harassed on the street. And even though the parent comment attempted to steer the discussion away from sexualizing her by directly quoting her desire to do so, you brought it back with a pointless comment about some ill-defined nerd-girl fantasy.
- brailsafe 9y agoSo much animosity.
- WillReplyfFood 9y agoA wild knight in shining armor appears to save the damsel in distress.
- randyrand 9y agois that quote relevant here?
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- King-Aaron 9y agoYou know, someone can have a 'crush' on someone and be from the same sex, or hold that 'crush' for reasons other than physical attraction.
- aalleavitch 9y agoYeah, geeze, I think everyone really took this the wrong way. I'd have just as much of a crush on her if she was a guy instead.
- wowtip 9y agoBut that is also a bit of a two edged sword. How much of her youtube success is due to her being a pretty girl?
- onion2k 9y agoHow much of her youtube success is due to her being a pretty girl? Let's assume 0, just as we would if it was a good looking man.
- andai 9y agoWell, you're not right.
- onion2k 9y agoI can talk about Simone's work without adding a caveat of "...for a pretty woman" to explain why her ingenuity and humor is successful. I might be wrong, but I think it's worth it.
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- croon 9y agoI hate to say it, but most successful guys on youtube are good looking too. It's an entertainment thing in general, regardless of what we feel about merits.
- onion2k 9y agoThe number of people who see Tom Scott's channel and suggest he wouldn't have a million subscribers if he wasn't as handsome is close enough to zero to be negligible. People believe that his success comes from his content rather than what he looks like. It's perfectly reasonable to assume the same is true for channels hosted by women. We could be wrong, just as we could be wrong about Tom's subscribers, but everyone's better off for it so maybe being wrong is fine.
- nodesocket 9y agoAdvise. Go to Stockholm Sweden. I've lived there twice; once for 3 months and the other time 1 month. Mid summer is amazing. Learn to love coffee and fika.
- nurettin 9y agoI learned to love fika from one of the commodore 64 remixes. These guys have no inhibitions whatsoever: http://www.remix64.com/track/dr-fikalover/i-would-like-a-fika-swedish-holy-ground/ http://www.remix64.com/track/dr-fikalover/i-would-like-a-fik...
- gumby 9y agoMidsummer is amazing (and you can swim in the harbour). Unfortunately Dec/Jan are pretty grim. It's cool -- once -- to use your subway fare to take a tiny ferry that breaks through the crust of ice. But not seeing the sun, except for a dim, watery glimmer around lunch time, is not nice at all.
- foota 9y agoWhat temperature is the water at? I would have thought very cold.
- gumby 9y agoIn the summer it's pretty nice. I don't remember but I'm not a fan of super cold water and I found it enjoyable. In the winter the harbour freezes, though it remains navigable (i.e. not thick ice; more of a skin, but it gives you an idea of the winter temperature).
- alkonaut 9y agoSea temp is pretty ok, it’s a lot less exposed than the “big” oceans. Often over 20 in summer. Same as many North Atlantic beaches, or othe “cold water” beaches like south Australia etc. Shallow and protected makes more difference to sea temp than latitude. It’s like a big lake effectively (not even salty)
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- foobarbazetc 9y agoNobody cares.
- yipopov 9y agoYou'll have to compete with Terry A. Davis, then: https://web.archive.org/web/20171126105237/http://www.templeos.org/ https://web.archive.org/web/20171126105237/http://www.temple... He will however permit them to...ehrm...have carnal relations with gentlemen who happen to be African-Americans, so if you qualify you might be in luck.
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- swayvil 9y agoThis is inspiring as hell. Simone is making the world a better place in a big way.
- corndoge 9y agoShe gets money from selling novelty vids to television programmes. How does this make the world a better place?
- executesorder66 9y agoShe is providing entertainment. Some people believe that the arts are worthless, and the only thing worth doing is science. Others don't believe that, and enjoy entertainment, and appreciate people who create the entertainment.
- godzillabrennus 9y agoEntertaining people with science. Making machines less scary so people are less fearful.
- stcredzero 9y agoMaking machines less scary so people are less fearful. So when Skynet finally decides it's Judgement Day, it's easier for Skynet to eliminate the most dangerous scourge on Earth: Humanity.
- lsc 9y agoYou are downvoted, of course, because we all know what side our bread is buttered on. When the revolution comes, many of us here will probably not be friends with John Connor.
- Cthulhu_ 9y agoOTOH, if she inspires people to make more shitty robots, Skynet will only have shitty toothbrushing robots to work with. Also if Skynet starts eliminating people, it itself will become the most dangerous scourge; if it's self-learning it'll shut itself down.
- packetslave 9y agoShe's part of Adam Savage's "Tested" crew too, and her YouTube channel is hilarious.
- gresrun 9y agoYT Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3KEoMzNz8eYnwBC34RaKCQ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3KEoMzNz8eYnwBC34RaKCQ
- bigiain 9y agoAnd a better take on Simone's work from Daily Beast: https://www.thedailybeast.com/ces-was-full-of-useless-robots-and-machines-that-dont-work https://www.thedailybeast.com/ces-was-full-of-useless-robots...
- tw1010 9y agoThat article is about CES. It mentions her name once in the first paragraph and then never again.
- mrarjen 9y agoPretty much the same amount of text as the gz article then. I find her video's rather inspiring showing what is possible with robots and also how they are incomprehensibly useless in most ways for tasks that are not laid out perfectly for them.
- cantrip 9y agoShe studied engineering, programming, and robotics, she makes a living making robots full time, and yet the article title calls her a "robotics hobbyist" and the article says she's a "robot enthusiast".
- brailsafe 9y agoWell, are those titles not true?
- computerex 9y ago> She studied engineering, programming, and robotics To be honest, I can't actually find any evidence that she graduated with even a bachelors for any of the topics you listed. It appears that she makes a living by being primarily an entertainer, not an engineer. In this context, I think the titles "robotics hobbyist" and "robot enthusiast" are appropriate and accurate.
- sillysaurus3 9y agoIt takes skill for her to do what she does. And this "graduated with X degree" is just classism. Credentialism is sometimes a useful metric, but at a certain point experience is more important.
- cantrip 9y agoI guess I've just never considered a college degree a prerequisite for professional respect. Even if you do think that way, and you consider her as completely an entertainer with robotics as her medium, is she a robotics hobbyist? Are all professional rock musicians just guitar enthusiasts? My suspicion is that she is called so simply because of her gender, and that a male "entertainer", college drop out or not, would be called an engineer.
- jacquesm 9y agoIf you like Simone Giertz' work and you haven't seen it yet please go see the movie 'Modern Times' by Charles Chaplin.
- lawlessone 9y agoThere is nothing new under the sun.
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- watwut 9y agoI wish article would have different title, so that people would be less primed to go into gender war over this or that. The video is really funny. I think I will look her up, because of how it makes robots making look.
- asciimo 9y agoAmazingly, she learned English from television. https://youtu.be/z8NIw1HeBBk https://youtu.be/z8NIw1HeBBk