What an incredible rabbit hole. Margaret Hamilton, awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for "[leading] the team that created the on-board flight software" for the Apollo missions, wasn't even hired until after the completed software had already flown to the moon in Apollo 8!
A team of 400 men worked for years to create the software for the two Apollo AGCs. Sometime around the release date, Hamilton is hired and promoted *by her husband* from a beginner role to be in charge of command module software, on which her name does not appear until 1969.
The exact date of Hamilton's '68 entry level hire, and hasty promotion to software lead (both times by the man she married in '69) I haven't seen, but we know the first revision with her name is March 1969, months after the delivered product had gone to the moon.
Below is a contemporary source of Apollo computer hardware and software development personnel over the course of the program.
The software is finalized and delivered in 1968, and flies to the moon in Apollo 8. The first release with Margaret Hamilton in charge is at the end.
What incredible "courage" of this guy to hand Apollo CM software leadership over to the junior programmer Margaret Hamilton, the only woman on the entire team of 400, whom he would completely coincidentally end up marrying the very next year!
(Correction: Hamilton was probably first employed at entry level in 1965, then after the CM software delivery date, she was given control of it for the bug-fix phase sometime at the end of 68 or early 69. Sources often highly vague about exact dates.)
"I've encountered no discrimination at all" says woman with same last name as the man who hired and promoted her.
"Hamilton, Mrs. Dan Lickly": another women in tech success story.
The article completes the picture. 1968: Apollo software is done, transitions to bug fix mode, shrinks headcount, and is no longer a prestige project. The boss, Dan Likely, hires his soon-to-be wife, Margaret Hamilton, to take his place as he quits to start his own company.
Not only did Hamilton not lead Apollo software as implied, but her entire tenure in the program is suspect because 100% of it was arranged by her husband, who hired her, mentored her as she was given a small team, then promoted her immediately before their marriage.
Hamilton was employed from 1965-1968 at the lowest level of the CM org chart. After Apollo 8, she was promoted by Lickly to lead that department. After Apollo 11 LM and CM were combined into one org node with her in charge of both.
I'm not paying Elon $8 to edit the above tweet.
Both LM and CM software were completed and flew to the moon before Hamilton was put in charge of them. There are no grounds to say that she lead the development (Obama admin), or that it was "her code" (Vox article, various tweets).
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A fascinating recurring Reddit phenomenon is someone seeking advice from a technical forum on an unusual situation, then a commenter correctly diagnoses OP as experiencing hallucinations or delusions which they are trying to make sense of.
The most famous instance of this was the guy seeking legal advice about his landlord repeatedly entering his apartment, who was correctly diagnosed as having carbon monoxide poisoning.
Another one of these just occurred today with a guy asking for home security questions about how to deal with persistent, technically savvy home invaders, who are almost certainly not real.
The race gap is an example of the @wanyeburkett observation that liberals treat explaining a problem the same as solving it.
You can say low black scores are from lead pollution etc, but I still don't want people with brain damage from lead exposure fast-tracked into med school.
@wanyeburkett A common liberal view on race and representation is "don't call it a pipeline problem", which is their way of saying that a lack of qualified applicants is no excuse for not practicing affirmative action; basically "I reject your reality and substitute my own."
This is emotionally powerful for a minority of true believers but most people aren't on board with explicitly giving jobs to less qualified applicants. So most conversations start with the lib denying that any disparity in the pipeline exists at all that would impede equality.
Pedestrian deaths are another situation where the liberal policy crowd tries to take a problem of acute American lawlessness and reframe it as some abstract system design problem caused by not adopting their pet regulations on urbanism or banning cars they don't like.
Pedestrian fatalities are dishonestly framed. Glossy reports represent "pedestrians" as wheelchairs and strollers at crosswalks.
But data show the pedestrians dying are extremely disproportionately drunk or in the middle of the road at night, with driver speeding a minor cause.
The surge in pedestrian fatalities from 2014-2016 is universally presented as a problem you caused by driving a big truck.
But there was no inflection point in truck/SUV sales at that time, and the pedestrian fatalities surge occurred with both passenger cars and truck/SUVs.
LLMs thinking "off the top of their head" are unlikely to generate novel discoveries for the same reason a person wouldn't. Those discoveries that can be inferred by mulling over existing literature without external data manipulation have already been found.
The medical breakthroughs you could accomplish without needing carefully collected data and a statistician were already found fifty years ago.
Using existing datasets to make a novel statement about whether X food additive increases cancer requires many iterations of modeling.
These examples make the point. A human makes these discoveries after being fortunately "prompted" with successive texts that contained a sufficiently-obvious pattern. But you can't easily send a human into a library with the task "find me new patterns".
In the DC schools attendance report, a student being black is more than twice as strong a risk factor for chronic absenteeism than "experiencing homelessness".
As with the 2020 surge in traffic fatalities, the recent collapse in school attendance is a breakdown of social norms that require applying discipline to blacks. There is no longer a shared expectation blacks should be compelled to do anything, so kids simply stop showing up.
All at once, D.C. stopped a variety of risk-reduction enforcement activities for the explicitly racial reason that the people who break the rules are black, and punishing blacks is bad. So illegal guns aren't prosecuted, unpaid tickets aren't enforced, and truancy is ignored.
DoJ press release says two men planned to attack power grid with an "AR-47" rifle.
The actual Information describes an Armalite rifle with no SN, which I'm guessing means it was sold to them by a fed.
I can't verify that there is any product called an "AR-47" but the statement of facts in the plea agreement insists they bought and built them, which I'm guessing implies "an AR receiver with some AK aesthetic characteristics".