Accidentally is 12 letter word

Key point: her algorithm was not actually used to create the image.

As a scientist, I think the shitty thing about these media hype stories is that it can create massive resentment in a reseaerch team when one person is suddenly made out to be a "historic figure".

>In their eagerness to celebrate her, however, many nonscientists on social media overstated

The NYT is playing coy as if the press isn't the number 1 offender of hyperfocus on a single detail in an effort to advance their pet causes at the cost of distorting the topic they're ostensibly covering.

Article's actual title is much more descriptive: "How Katie Bouman Accidentally Became the Face of the Black Hole Project"

This is the least helpful HN title I've seen in a while -- doesn't even match the original article title, which is far more descriptive: "How Katie Bouman Accidentally Became the Face of the Black Hole Project"

Aren't we supposed to use the actual title of the page when we post to HN?