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This is an actual quality article about the work and science from a publication about the subject unlike the human-interest pieces that come out of all the usual MSM sources.
This is an actual quality article about the work and science from a publication about the subject unlike the human-interest pieces that come out of all the usual MSM sources.
Andrew Chael on his twitter feed says she was as essential as anyone else.
https://twitter.com/thisgreyspirit/status/1116518544961830918
(1/7) So apparently some (I hope very few) people online are using the fact that I am the primary developer of the eht-imaging software library (https://github.com/achael/eht-imaging …) to launch awful and sexist attacks on my colleague and friend Katie Bouman. Stop.
(2/7) Our papers used three independent imaging software libraries (including one developed by my friend @sparse_k). While I wrote much of the code for one of these pipelines, Katie was a huge contributor to the software; it would have never worked without her contributions and
(3/7) the work of many others who wrote code, debugged, and figured out how to use the code on challenging EHT data. With a few others, Katie also developed the imaging framework that rigorously tested all three codes and shaped the entire paper (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab0e85 …);
(Also I did not write "850,000 lines of code" -- many of those "lines" tracked by github are in model files. There are about 68,000 lines in the current software, and I don't care how many of those I personally authored)
from about two years ago --- How to take a picture of a black hole | Katie Bouman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIvezCVcsYs
17 minute video from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) on the data process https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omz77qrDjsU
Dr. Bouman was the project lead. This was no solo effort on her part. She repeatedly gave kudos and credit to her team.
of course, the MSM went nuts saying OMG A WOMAN
so much so someone put together this correction
https://i.imgur.com/eCLomJH.jpg
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/12/us/andrew-chael-katie-bouman-black-hole-image-trnd/index.html
When internet trolls tried to detract from Katherine Bouman's rise to stardom for her part in creating the first image of a black hole, her colleague quickly shut them down.
Bouman, 29, created one of the algorithms that led to the groundbreaking black hole image. She also helped develop the imaging and verification process.
However, a nasty corner of the internet tried to downplay Bouman's role and started spreading posts claiming that Andrew Chael -- a white male scientist -- was actually the mastermind behind the project.
The misleading posts, on Reddit and Twitter, said Chael alone had authored "850,000 of the 900,000 lines of code that were written in the historic black-hole image algorithm!"
However, the effort quickly backfired.
Though it may have been nice to receive more recognition, Chael immediately took to Twitter to explain that the online trolls had exaggerated his contributions, and he defended Bouman's work. In addition, Chael said that as an openly gay man, he is also an underrepresented demographic in STEM.
"Once I realized that many online commentators were using my name and image to advance a sexist agenda to claim that Katie's leading role in our global team was invented, I felt I should say something to make it clear I rejected that view," Chael told CNN.
Though Bouman has received a lot of attention, she has maintained that the black hole image was the product of teamwork.
"No one of us could've done it alone," Bouman told CNN. "It came together because of lots of different people from many backgrounds."
The Event Horizon Telescope project was composed of an international team of more than 200 researchers.
Andrew Chael on his twitter feed says she was as essential as anyone else.
https://twitter.com/thisgreyspirit/status/1116518544961830918
> (1/7) So apparently some (I hope very few) people online are using the fact that I am the primary developer of the eht-imaging software library (https://github.com/achael/eht-imaging …) to launch awful and sexist attacks on my colleague and friend Katie Bouman. Stop.
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> (2/7) Our papers used three independent imaging software libraries (including one developed by my friend @sparse_k). While I wrote much of the code for one of these pipelines, Katie was a huge contributor to the software; it would have never worked without her contributions and
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> (3/7) the work of many others who wrote code, debugged, and figured out how to use the code on challenging EHT data. With a few others, Katie also developed the imaging framework that rigorously tested all three codes and shaped the entire paper (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab0e85 …);
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> (Also I did not write "850,000 lines of code" -- many of those "lines" tracked by github are in model files. There are about 68,000 lines in the current software, and I don't care how many of those I personally authored)
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from about two years ago --- How to take a picture of a black hole | Katie Bouman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIvezCVcsYs
17 minute video from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) on the data process https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omz77qrDjsU
Dr. Bouman was the project lead. This was no solo effort on her part. She repeatedly gave kudos and credit to her team.
of course, the MSM went nuts saying OMG A WOMAN
so much so someone put together this correction
https://i.imgur.com/eCLomJH.jpg
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https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/12/us/andrew-chael-katie-bouman-black-hole-image-trnd/index.html
>When internet trolls tried to detract from Katherine Bouman's rise to stardom for her part in creating the first image of a black hole, her colleague quickly shut them down.
> Bouman, 29, created one of the algorithms that led to the groundbreaking black hole image. She also helped develop the imaging and verification process.
> However, a nasty corner of the internet tried to downplay Bouman's role and started spreading posts claiming that Andrew Chael -- a white male scientist -- was actually the mastermind behind the project.
>The misleading posts, on Reddit and Twitter, said Chael alone had authored "850,000 of the 900,000 lines of code that were written in the historic black-hole image algorithm!"
> However, the effort quickly backfired.
> Though it may have been nice to receive more recognition, Chael immediately took to Twitter to explain that the online trolls had exaggerated his contributions, and he defended Bouman's work. In addition, Chael said that as an openly gay man, he is also an underrepresented demographic in STEM.
> "Once I realized that many online commentators were using my name and image to advance a sexist agenda to claim that Katie's leading role in our global team was invented, I felt I should say something to make it clear I rejected that view," Chael told CNN.
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> Though Bouman has received a lot of attention, she has maintained that the black hole image was the product of teamwork.
> "No one of us could've done it alone," Bouman told CNN. "It came together because of lots of different people from many backgrounds."
> The Event Horizon Telescope project was composed of an international team of more than 200 researchers.
MSM reporting so accurate when they credit someone who did a little bit of UX work for an application for "leading" the project