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Cool People Doing Cool Things (mander.xyz)

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[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 63 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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

and

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.

[-] houstoneulers@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

She has a great ted talk about this exact proj

https://youtu.be/BIvezCVcsYs?feature=shared

[-] qaz@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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

[-] toasteecup@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Gotta love misogyny

[-] johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months 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.

[-] rooroo@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

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.