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Christoph S 2 years ago diaspora

2019-04-10 20:20:57

#EHTblackhole #BlackHoleDay #BlackHole
Left: MIT computer scientist Katie Bouman w/stacks of hard drives of black hole image data.

Right: MIT computer scientist Margaret Hamilton w/the code she wrote that helped put a man on the moon.

(image credit @floragraham)#EHTblackhole #BlackHoleDay #BlackHole pic.twitter.com/Iv5PIc8IYd
— MIT CSAIL (@MIT_CSAIL) April 10, 2019

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Troy (helium) 2 years ago diaspora

My brain hurts just looking at all those HDDs.

Rob Bosch 2 years ago diaspora

This is so cool: From the twitter discussion above mentioned, the sourcecode of appolo 11 guidance control for the command and lunar modules: https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11

Troy (helium) 2 years ago diaspora

I think it would make a great "who did it better" debate. Terabytes of number crunching vs a stack of printouts taller than you are, the contents of which are also all in your head...

Christoph S 2 years ago diaspora

Yes, it's really awesome too take a look at the Apollo code. And compare that to the 5000 Terabyte of data from the Telescope 🔭