• @[email protected]
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    Even if every single person in the world had a unique gender, you could store that in 33 bits

    You can store that in a small QR code

  • @[email protected]
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    lets burn down our civilizations by spending all our wealth discussing this

    The issue is based on legal terminology. Gender isn’t a legal thing only pushed into our vocabulary.

    Allocate an unbound memory blob and sit back for the herd of the Rust coders to line up. Sell them a soda while they do their best chicken parody

  • @[email protected]
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    No Y = 0

    Presence of Y = 1

    Looks like you can express it with binary if you want, though you would need an interpreter

    • @[email protected]
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      except that genetics isn’t that simple, there’s many many things that go into structuring your body. Even biological sex isn’t binary, there’s plenty of overlap. People can literally be born with both sets of genitals afaik.

    • Natanox
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      That’s a chromosome you encoded there which is one of a few markers that define sex, not gender.

      • @[email protected]
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        Same thing

        It’s meaningless to who the individual is, unless you’re a conservative that believes playing with dolls or wearing makeup makes you a girl but then I don’t care for your opinion

        • Natanox
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          Yes, chromosomes are meaningless to who someone is (except edge-cases).

          No, sex and gender aren’t the same.

        • @BothsidesistFraud
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          We could do laps on this all day. In the end if a trans person says they’re trans and this is what it means to them, I’ll take them at their word.

  • @LovableSidekick
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    So many other things are also non-binary, but people insist that not being 100% on their side means you’re a million percent on the extreme opposite hateful wrong side.

    • @madcaesar
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      Absolutely. My baseline is that I want everyone to be treated equally and with respect. I want everyone have the same protections from the government and everyone to be allowed to be and to love whoever they want.

      Past that, it gets into minutia I just can’t get on board with and it’s hurting the left as a whole because people are trying to force language and thought policing on people, which I don’t like, it’s authoritarian, and I think it’s a losing strategy.

  • Anna
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    Maybe it can be represented by 1qbit

    • JackbyDev
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      I don’t think so, because with qubits the intermediate values can be non binary but the end result must be binary when read. Unless you wanna make a joke about filling out government forms I guess lol.

    • stebo
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      literally discussed with my friends the other day that gender is like a vector in Hilbert space

  • @[email protected]
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    2318 hours ago

    There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don’t.

    • @[email protected]
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      2317 hours ago

      There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who get ternary; those who don’t; those who thought this was going to be a binary joke

      • stebo
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        There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who get quaternary; those who don’t; those who thought this was going to be a ternary joke; those who can see where this is going…

          • JackbyDev
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            11 hour ago

            Regardless of what base you’re using, 10 is always the nth number. In base 10 (normal numbers), 10 is 10th. In base 2 it is the 2nd.

            1. 1
            2. 10
            3. 11

            In base 16 (hexadecimal) it is the 16th.

            1. 1
            2. 2
            3. 3
            4. 4
            5. 5
            6. 6
            7. 7
            8. 8
            9. 9
            10. A
            11. B
            12. C
            13. D
            14. E
            15. F
            16. 10

            The original joke is “there are 10 kinds of people, those who understand binary and those who don’t l” because 10 in binary is 2 in base 10. But they’re pointing out that a similar joke works for all bases of numbers.

  • davel [he/him]
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    My gender is e, which can be represented by neither integers nor floating points.

    • @AeonFelis
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      That’s a very quaternionphobic list.

    • @affiliate
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      this is p-adic gender erasure

    • Anna
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      It is definitely complex numbers in polar form

  • @[email protected]
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    I’ve been thinking about this now and again. IMO gender, if one insists on tracking it at all (which I mostly find counterproductive), would need to be a vector / tuple of floating-point values. The components would be something like:

    1. Sexual Development Index: Encodes chromosomal sex, genitalia, and other primary sexual characteristics (X/Y chromosome ratio).
    2. Hormonal Balance & Secondary Sexual Characteristics: Combines hormonal levels and the resulting secondary traits (body hair, muscle mass, etc.).
    3. Brain Structure: A dimension indicating how a person’s brain structure aligns with typical male or female patterns.
    4. Gender Identity: A measure of self-identified gender, representing the psychological and social dimension.
    5. Fertility/Intersex Traits: A combined measure of fertility potential and the presence of intersex traits (e.g., ambiguous genitalia, mixed gonadal structures, etc.).

    Ideally it would track the specific genes that code for all of the above factors, but unfortunately science hasn’t got those down yet.

    • @[email protected]
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      A good way would be to create as many variables as possible that map anything relevant, genes, upbringing, sexual and gender expression, etc., and then doing a PCA to reduce the defining vector to as few elements as possible.

      • @[email protected]
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        I like how you think but I’m not sure if that alone will hold water. A variable can vary wildly even though it’s not very relevant to the property you’re interested in, and PCA would consider such a variable to be very significant. Perhaps a neural network could find a latent space. But ideally we want the components to have some intuitive meaning for humans.

    • @[email protected]
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      Gender Identity, now with linear algebra. Those 3b1b videos are going to be super useful, but not in the way the author intended.

    • @Atlusb
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      And liable to type conversion errors and precision loss.

      • @NocturnalMorning
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        Jesus, why’d you have to bring floating point and machine precision into the conversation? Now I won’t sleep. And the nightmares will be worse than before.

  • MeatPilot
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  • @Valmond
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    As it is not stable I’d go with a database.

    Sqlite.