Love this new paper titled "Computer Science Communities: Who is Speaking, and Who is Listening to the Women? Not us. We're inferring gender from first names."

I guess professionally my gender is andy, according to gender-guesser:

>>> import gender_guesser.detector as gender
>>> d = gender.Detector()
>>> d.get_gender("Wen")
andy

Shockingly, the software doesn't gender "Cyrridven" or "Kerewin" correctly. Can you IMAGINE?

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