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4 women in engineering discuss harassment, isolation and perseverence

TechCrunch

Yury Roa, SRE technical program manager at ADL Digital Labs in Bogota, Colombia. “The fact that people talk authentically about their own jobs and challenges and how they’ve overcome that, that’s been really helpful for me to continue seeing myself in the tech industry,” she said.

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The End of Silicon Valley as We Know It?

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

As Judea Pearl has noted , excessive identification of correlations (i.e, “curve fitting”) makes the definition of authentic causal relationships more challenging. And “real science” needs causal relationships. There are great fortunes yet to be made, of course.