eht-imaging

https://github.com/achael/eht-imaging This python code was part of the imaging, analysis, and simulation software for radio interferometry that led to the historical first 'image' of a black hole.

https://github.com/achael/eht-imaging This python code is responsible for the fairly recent imaging of the black-hole (i.e. imaging, analysis, and simulation software for radio interferometry). It's extremely easy to digest despite the complexity involved.

It's very easy to see that this is a publicity stunt (and a quite sexist one, at that). Allegations have been made that Andrew Chael contributed 850kloc, but this is clearly bizzare. Analyzing the git repo[1] shows that this enormous contribution was actually data used to train the probabilistic imaging model used in creating the image. Chael has also addressed this attack campaign on his twitter [2], making it clear that Katie Bouman played a vital role in the EHT project. [1] https://github.com/achael/eht-imaging/graphs/contributors [2] https://twitter.com/thisgreyspirit/status/111651854496183091...

Incredible, that a purported programmer/software engineer in 2019 thinks that someone's Github commit history is the sum total of all their work. Not only that, you seem to be completely ignorant of how to find someone's Github commits to repos that aren't owned by their account. https://github.com/achael/eht-imaging/graphs/contributors

I'm reluctant to even dignify this kind of low-effort drivel with a response. There's a bunch of other commits linked from that very same user profile, related to -- and this will blow your mind -- image reconstruction: https://github.com/achael/eht-imaging/commits?author=klbouma... Even if that were not true, scientific code often does not end up public, let alone on github. Not to mention that Dr. Bouman is the first author of a closely-related paper at CVPR, which is one of the most prestigious meetings in a field of study called "computer vision": https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.01413 Obviously this was a massive team effort, but PR frenzies happen to good people all the time and I don't see anyone scrutinizing public commit counts when it's a man in a similar context.

I think you're looking in the wrong place. I don't see anywhere in the eat github repository where there is code similar to the CHIRP algorithm (correct me if I'm wrong). I'd be interested in seeing the actual code used to generate the image (certainly the eat repo was used, but it doesn't look to be the main algorithm?) It looks more plausible that the algorithm is in eht-imaging (https://github.com/achael/eht-imaging), but I haven't looked deeply enough yet. She contributed a lot more to that repo. And having said all that, # lines/commits isn't as important as the algorithm

and also doing stuff like computing Fourier matrices: https://github.com/achael/eht-imaging/commit/40665b2f4c5a220... But who's counting, right? Seems that you have to not only manage the team writing the software, but you also have to write the entire software to get credit.

Is this the correct repo? https://github.com/achael/eht-imaging/graphs/contributors I didn't realize this was public code. It looks like one "achael" is the author of this, though.

Calling his contributions "850,000" lines of code is a little disingenuous.. Almost all of those lines committed to GitHub are numbers generated by the code and stored in text files in the "models" folder. https://github.com/achael/eht-imaging I'm not trying to diminish his work but saying big numbers because they sound impressive is stupid.

Citation definitely needed. The software is "ehtim", here are the contributors: https://github.com/achael/eht-imaging/graphs/contributors He says: > I wrote ehtim (eht-imaging) as a python framework for implementing regularized maximum likelihood imaging methods on EHT data. In the last two years, it has evolved into a flexible environment for manipulating, simulating, analyzing, and imaging interferometric data and is a workhorse of the EHT’s data analysis pipeline. Source: https://achael.github.io/_pages/software/ At first I thought the image was being disingenuous by cherry-picking commits to highlight, but take a look for yourself, she really did mostly just modify plotting, add options and fix bugs: https://github.com/achael/eht-imaging/commits?author=klbouma... There's nothing wrong with that, but claiming that she is "behind the so

https://github.com/achael/eht-imaging/commit/886b07b8a00d142... one commit with 524,306 additions. adding a model.

> https://github.com/achael/eht-imaging/graphs/contributors Huh, I wonder how accurate this is. All the code is beyond me in any case, I'm in no position to judge the relative value of any of it.

Relevant repository - https://github.com/achael/eht-imaging