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Re:Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first bla... by tropo on Thursday April 11, 2019 @12:41PM (#19636426)
Do you think a man in a similar position would be elevated on a pedestal, to the exclusion of the algorithm designer (Mareki Honma) and the primary software author (Andrew Chael)?
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Re:Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first bla... by inflatableDodo on Thursday April 11, 2019 @12:57PM (#19636606)
Who gets elevated on a pedestal and who actually did the work appear to be so badly correlated across the entire breadth of human cultures that you would assume that they only share the most tenuous of causal linkages.

So yes, that happens a lot.

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Re:Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first bla... by streb-lo on Thursday April 11, 2019 @12:48PM (#19636513)
Yes I think the world would be interested to meet the person behind viewing the first black hole regardless of their gender.

>to the exclusion of the algorithm designer and the primary software author?

How can you possibly infer that from a git history?

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