Every AI you use was built by queer people. Not as a fun fact for June. As the foundation. I build AI systems at KyaniteLabs, and the deeper I went into the actual history of this field, the more one thing became impossible to unsee: the people who poured the foundation of modern computing were queer and trans — and the field spent decades forgetting them. I want to walk you through it, because it changed how I think about building. You already know the famous one. Alan Turing — gay, the father of computer science, chemically castrated by the British government for it, dead two years later. You've heard that story. But here's the detail most people miss: the Turing Test started as a party game about telling a man from a woman, where the man's job was to pass as the woman. Then Turing swapped the man for a computer. The very first version of "can a machine imitate a human" was built on top of "can someone imitate a gender." Identity performance is baked into the origin of AI. That's the doorway. Now walk through it — because the names on the other side are the ones nobody put on the poster. It was never just Turing. Once you know to look, they're everywhere: - Lynn Conway invented out-of-order execution at IBM — still in chips today — then co-led the chip-design revolution that makes modern GPUs possible. The GPUs that train every AI model. IBM fired her in 1968 for transitioning. They apologized in 2020. Fifty-two years later. - Peter Landin invented the indentation rule that Python and Haskell use right now. Bisexual. Marched with the Gay Liberation Front. - Christopher Strachey wrote a love-letter-generating program in 1952 — one of the first creative AIs, fourteen years before ELIZA. Gay. Scholars now read those clumsy auto-love-letters as quiet queer parody. - Edith Windsor rose to IBM's highest technical rank on legendary debugging. You might know her from United States v. Windsor — the 2013 case that struck down DOMA. Marriage-equality icon, systems engineer first.

I’ve seen a number of people either not know competitions are going on or know how to find them so here is a quick single source thread where you can get them all. I’ll keep this updated as new challenges are released. Also, there is a weekly leaderboard challenge where the member at the top of the 7 day rolling leaderboard wins an upgrade to their membership. This winner is announced on Mondays typically. Current Weekly Challenge Week 6 Due Sunday 5/31 12 PM EST The Challenge 💪 - Build a research specialist in the field of your choice Rules & Submissions 🗒️ - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/weekly-comp-6-the-researcher?p=fa674d82 --- Past Challenges Week 1 The Challenge 💪 - Build a brand voice document for a pet grooming business Rules & submissions 🗒️ - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/first-ever-weekly-competition-is-live?p=90f50bf9 Results🏆 - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/weekly-comp-1-winner-ian-barriopedro?p=0501b57e Week 2 The Challenge 💪 - Build an artifact of a financial advisor client intake system Rules & submissions 🗒️ - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/weekly-comp-2-the-artifact-sprint?p=15145a68 Results🏆 - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/weekly-comp-2-winner-virgilio-robinson Week 3 The Challenge 💪 - Build an AI specialist of your choice using the ICM method Rules @ submissions 🗒️ - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/weekly-comp-3-the-specialist Results🏆 - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/weekly-comp-3-winner