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Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first black hole image

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Re: Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first black hole image

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Post by zymhan »

bubblewrap wrote: post #112
founderling wrote: post #104

I posted a comment 10 minutes ago and it got immediately downvoted into oblivion. Could you guys please tell me why it is such a bad question to ask? Thank you! Here it is: Does it really count as an image of a black hole? Since no light is reflected by the black hole, all we see is light bend by the gravity of the black hole. Haven't we seen that before? I have the strong feeling there have been photos of star const…

Must admit, I feel kind of the same. It's also probably more of an artistic rendering than a photograph in the classical sense.

Humans can only see a tiny sliver of the enormous Electromagnetic spectrum. Just because it's not a photograph in visible light doesn't mean it's not our best rendering of EM data and what that would look like to us if it was in the visible spectrum.

We do the same thing with digital cameras, X-rays, MRI, etc.

Re: Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first black hole image

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Post by aphextim »

scraft wrote: post #137
dalemyers wrote: post #44

I've read comments on Hacker News for many years, often finding them a useful source of additional information and insight into details from whatever the linked piece is. Sometimes these threads are full of only subtly veiled hatred and leave me with a feeling of disgust. This thread is one of those. There have been countless threads over the years where a man gets the credit for something a team has worked on and th…

I am glad she got credit and I am glad in that respect she got treated equally. I am a little sad that her gender is a 'thing', as in I think I have seen more comments on various news site comments, social media, etc. that are quick to specifically point out she is a woman. I get they are trying to be positive, but it also has this weird reverse side where it is like "An amazing feat in STEM has been achieved, but yo…

https://files.catbox.moe/tejoch.png

Re: Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first black hole image

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Post by aphextim »

threeseed wrote: post #50
dalemyers wrote: post #44

I've read comments on Hacker News for many years, often finding them a useful source of additional information and insight into details from whatever the linked piece is. Sometimes these threads are full of only subtly veiled hatred and leave me with a feeling of disgust. This thread is one of those. There have been countless threads over the years where a man gets the credit for something a team has worked on and th…

It's the same on Reddit. The sheer toxicity of many of the comments is something I haven't seen for a long time. They really hate that a women is getting credit and that others aren't getting the same level of attention. I wonder how those same people think about Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs etc. They had huge teams behind them as well.

https://files.catbox.moe/tejoch.png

Re: Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first black hole image

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Post by TheHypnotist »

aphextim wrote: post #213

Man who contributed 850 000 out of 900 000 lines of code vs woman who added other programmers' code. Guess who gets the credit? https://files.catbox.moe/tejoch.png

You're aware this team was large and was more than just code commits? If code commits are our barometer, there are a ton of people that deserve no credit.

Re: Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first black hole image

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Post by cdelsolar »

aphextim wrote: post #213

Man who contributed 850 000 out of 900 000 lines of code vs woman who added other programmers' code. Guess who gets the credit? https://files.catbox.moe/tejoch.png

Nice 4chan-style image and completely uninformed and idiotic comment. the large majority of those 850K lines of code were machine generated, models, or docs. Go back to whatever alt-right hole you crawled out of.
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