• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    This is her youtube channel. If you haven’t read the paper on this algorithm, I think you can get a good intuitive understanding by watching the two videos she has on there from (what looks like) her thesis, and I think it becomes clear why she was selected to lead this project.

    Specifically, these two videos:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfGvPinTJUs

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NhQ7WkbHms

    So, consider that these two videos are basically the “one-dimensional” solution, or one pin-hole camera example. In the approach that her and her team to image the black hole, they used many, many radio antennas’, all acting in concert in a not-too different version of what she did her for the work on her YT channel.

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      1 month ago

      too bad - that you leached on your senior collaborators who did ALL and every intellectual part of the project - all for your credit; you are what I call an instagram scientist - too bad for science that such people who do any third-rate cheating act for publicity - like Katie Bouman exists @JosephDT

      Seems like somebody is unhappy with her being chosen

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        1 month ago

        At the same time the media kinda picked her out as the face of this project when there were many other people involved. I think she even said as much.

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          Yeah and IIRC the dude the Internet misogynists decided was responsible for most of the code said ‘Shut up everyone I did some leg work, but she did the heavy lifting.’ Plus he’s queer or something else which would have had those fuckers in shambles had they known.