The Gender Genie

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This is a test of the gender genie. I do not think it will be correct because I think it will not have the requisite number of options.
I like the idea of using an algorithm to guess gender because it is as good a method as any doctor might use.
I found this page on WrongPlanet. I am not sure how to come to 500 words. I might post something from a blog, but I don't know what would happen with that information. There is nothing that says it would not become public property.
Why would anyone want to predict the gender of an author? Why wouldn't we already know? And if they wanted to hide it, shouldn't we protect their privacy?
I wonder if there is an option for transgender. I wonder if this makes mistakes when people with alternative lifestyles paste text? I would also be interested to see what happened for vampires.

The next step was mediation.

Five of them - my supervisor, her boss, the CEO, the agency lawyer and I guess the clinical vice president or whatever he is, against me and the union guy, who tried to cut a deal. I was late because he told me noon and the meeting was at 11. I had my IPAQ out and wrote the time there so I wouldn't forget.

He wanted them to combine both grievances and then do some garbage about agreeing to disagree and the warning would stay in my file., with the idea that if they tried to bring another disciplinary action it would open the grievance back up and it would go to arbitration.

They refused everything, and tried to discredit me by saying that I was unhappy, and that I was paranoid.

Then they tried to say that I arranged the disappearance of the last missing document to prove that things could go missing.

I don't need to do that. All I need to do is write things like yesterday when my co-worker told me a file I found on a desk in the conference room had been there for two days. Or the day that the change of shift file went missing and XXXXXXX had put it in her drawer with the blank phone contacts. Or today when I went through a client's file to find a sec 12, and the copy was missing and the 12 was still active. Talk about liability. They can't change the fact that it is missing because it is in the client's file in medical records at CDH. Anything they put in the chart will be an obvious fake. Of course they could always say that I took it out. But how would I know in advance that that would be needed or checked?

They are crazier than I am. At least I have an investment in the truth. But to risk perjury to prove only that you are right? No, that's not crazy. That's just stupid.

I fully intend on giving these yahoos as much rope as they want. Amazing that they are pursuing it. Someone is bound to believe me. Statistically it is impending.

The best part was validation by the mediator. He was mystified as to why they didn't want to negotiate. He cost them $1200. ServiceNet and the union had to split it. Finally getting my money's worth from the union.

Clearly the tide has turned. The mediator saw some benefit in compromise and he thought my offer was fair, that since there is a disagreement about the existence of a pattern, that if the pattern doesn't occur, they remove the warnings.

Their response was they can't do that because they never did it before. They also balked at the time period - 10 months. I would say that if something doesn't occur in ten months, you could not say a pattern is occurring.

The mediator agreed.

That was the best part - an outside party agreed with me.

What we perceive is largely a function of what we want/expect to see. For example, read Paris in the the spring time and most likely, the first time through one will see it as “Paris in the springtime”, when it is actually is “Paris in the the springtime”. Even when one catches the error it is assumed to be a mistake of the author, and thus is “corrected” to what it MUST mean. So in this way we rely on our preconceptions of what the world MUST be like in order to make sense of what we know. Unfortantly the universe is complex in such a way that one can find just about anything he is looking for in it. I think the variety and differences in the ways religion attempts to explain the world easily attests to this “finding of the one truth” in our natural world. Strangely enough this phenomenon has been creeping into the study of History for probably ever since a scribe somewhere began taking notes on what was occurring in the inner circle of power in some aciencnt city. A history is really not about anything other than ideals and power, which is why so much of history is concerned with politics, wars and revolution. The peace is only noteworthy if a struggle of politics occurs. Wars are a conflict of power and ideals, politics are a conflict of power and ideals, and revolutions are a conflict of power and ideals. Many people have complained about history not being concerned about everyday life, and they are correct in that regard. Where they go wrong is when they suggest history ought to cover the everyday struggle of the Everyman, of which I will summerize completely in the next paragraph. Life is sh***y. Enough said. See why this is not really covered in history? Now, if one wants to see the semantics of exactly how sh***y life is for different people, I suggest anthropology, which concerns itself with the everyday life in culture. Now, what is the good in studying the record of power and ideals? First, they give us some idea of what would probably work in our cultures and what was clearly rejected, and what is needed to sustain our cultures. Secondly, they provide a background to the circumstances that produced our governments and give a understanding as to why they where created. In this function, history legitimizes and sanctions government by serving as a living social contract. Unfortantly, with history serving as a social contract, the need to percieve things differently arises for different factions with different goals. For example, just consider the different ways to read Paris in the the springtime In order to resolve the problem of the two the’s, one can deliberatly ignore the first the. Another can ignore the second the. Yet another can read it and claim that the the’s cancel each other and it reads “Paris in springtime” For the perfect example of this, look at politicians when they argue whether the founding fathers where devout and godly Christians or if they where deist rebels