<story><title>Simone Giertz makes a living creating shitty robots (2016) [video]</title><url>https://qz.com/695832/this-robotics-hobbyist-makes-a-living-creating-shitty-robots/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cantrip</author><text>I guess I&amp;#x27;ve just never considered a college degree a prerequisite for professional respect.&lt;p&gt;Even if you do think that way, and you consider her as completely an entertainer with robotics as her medium, is she a robotics hobbyist?&lt;p&gt;Are all professional rock musicians just guitar enthusiasts?&lt;p&gt;My suspicion is that she is called so simply because of her gender, and that a male &amp;quot;entertainer&amp;quot;, college drop out or not, would be called an engineer.</text></item><item><author>computerex</author><text>&amp;gt; She studied engineering, programming, and robotics&lt;p&gt;To be honest, I can&amp;#x27;t actually find any evidence that she graduated with even a bachelors for any of the topics you listed. It appears that she makes a living by being primarily an entertainer, not an engineer. In this context, I think the titles &amp;quot;robotics hobbyist&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;robot enthusiast&amp;quot; are appropriate and accurate.</text></item><item><author>cantrip</author><text>She studied engineering, programming, and robotics, she makes a living making robots full time, and yet the article title calls her a &amp;quot;robotics hobbyist&amp;quot; and the article says she&amp;#x27;s a &amp;quot;robot enthusiast&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>belorn</author><text>Using google, the first name for &amp;quot;+comedian +technology + enthusiasts&amp;quot; was Stephen Fry. Searching on &amp;quot;+comedian +technology +engineer&amp;quot; don&amp;#x27;t seem to give much of anything, except for engineer &lt;i&gt;turned&lt;/i&gt; comedian which is not what we are talking about.&lt;p&gt;I did the same by replacing technology with robot, but the only hit with a comedian in it was a article about Simone Giertz.&lt;p&gt;It seems like the difference between robot enthusiasts and robot engineer is dependent on how they are being used. A robot theater show is engineered. A comedian uses a robot prop and thus get called enthusiasts. If that pattern is true then a magician using robots would also not be called engineer, regardless of gender.</text></comment>
<story><title>Simone Giertz makes a living creating shitty robots (2016) [video]</title><url>https://qz.com/695832/this-robotics-hobbyist-makes-a-living-creating-shitty-robots/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cantrip</author><text>I guess I&amp;#x27;ve just never considered a college degree a prerequisite for professional respect.&lt;p&gt;Even if you do think that way, and you consider her as completely an entertainer with robotics as her medium, is she a robotics hobbyist?&lt;p&gt;Are all professional rock musicians just guitar enthusiasts?&lt;p&gt;My suspicion is that she is called so simply because of her gender, and that a male &amp;quot;entertainer&amp;quot;, college drop out or not, would be called an engineer.</text></item><item><author>computerex</author><text>&amp;gt; She studied engineering, programming, and robotics&lt;p&gt;To be honest, I can&amp;#x27;t actually find any evidence that she graduated with even a bachelors for any of the topics you listed. It appears that she makes a living by being primarily an entertainer, not an engineer. In this context, I think the titles &amp;quot;robotics hobbyist&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;robot enthusiast&amp;quot; are appropriate and accurate.</text></item><item><author>cantrip</author><text>She studied engineering, programming, and robotics, she makes a living making robots full time, and yet the article title calls her a &amp;quot;robotics hobbyist&amp;quot; and the article says she&amp;#x27;s a &amp;quot;robot enthusiast&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>&amp;quot;Dr Brian May, professional astrophysicist, is also a guitar hobbyist who builds his own instruments&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;(joke explanation for HN: this description is technically accurate but nobody would call the guitarist from Queen a &amp;quot;hobbyist&amp;quot;)</text></comment>