A.J. Chavar
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Articles by A.J. Chavar
New York City On a Plate
Sam Sifton takes you through a meal at Torrisi, where the story of the five boroughs is channeled through the food. Story of a Restaurant: The Magic of New York City on a Plate Our critic takes you through a meal at Torrisi, where the story of the five boroughs is channeled through the food. All right. This is it. This is my favorite dish on the menu. [JAZZY MUSIC] I'm going to tell you why. [UPBEAT MUSIC] I'm so glad we're having dinner together.
Creating Workflows for NeRF Portraiture
R&D is experimenting with storytelling applications of Neural Radiance fields (NeRF), a machine learning technique for achieving photorealistic detail in 3D. For over 5 years, The Times has been using photogrammetry to create high-quality 3D reconstructions. While photogrammetry is excellent at generating 3D models, it struggles to accurately represent reflection, transparency, fine details and some of the atmospheric qualities of light.
Creating a Guide to Mobile Photogrammetry
Skip Navigation or Skip to Content This video series from R&D features team members describing their roles, processes and the specific technical challenges they encounter while building and shipping projects. Along with each episode, we’ll share relevant background, resources, references and advice for anyone interested in creating something similar or learning more. If you have any questions, you can email us at rd@nytimes.com.
Streamlining Reader Q&A with Zero-Shot Learning
This video series from R&D features team members describing their roles, processes and the specific technical challenges they encounter while building and shipping projects. Along with each episode, we’ll share relevant background, resources, references and advice for anyone interested in creating something similar or learning more. If you have any questions, you can email us at rd@nytimes.com.
Sourcing Training Data with Amazon’s Mechanical Turk
This video series from R&D features team members describing their roles, processes and the specific technical challenges they encounter while building and shipping projects. Along with each episode, we’ll share relevant background, resources, references and advice for anyone interested in creating something similar or learning more. If you have any questions, you can email us at rd@nytimes.com.
Using Computer Vision to Create A More Accurate Digital Archive
This video series from R&D features team members describing their roles, processes and the specific technical challenges they encounter while building and shipping projects. Along with each episode, we’ll share relevant background, resources, references and advice for anyone interested in creating something similar or learning more. If you have any questions, you can email us at rd@nytimes.com.
Building The Timesʼs First AR Game
May 11, 2021 by Ellen Lo, A.J. Chavar, Lana Z Porter, Minkyoung Kim, Adam Blufarb & Rony Karadi This video series from R&D features team members describing their roles, processes and the specific technical challenges they encounter while building and shipping projects. Along with each episode, we’ll share relevant background, resources, references and advice for anyone interested in creating something similar or learning more. If you have any questions, you can email us at rd@nytimes.com.
Assembling a Camera Rig to Capture Complex Spaces in 3D
February 1, 2021 by Niko Koppel, A.J. Chavar, Lana Z Porter, Minkyoung Kim, Adam Blufarb This video series from R&D features team members describing their roles, processes and the specific technical challenges they encounter while building and shipping projects. Along with each episode, we’ll share relevant background, resources, references and advice for anyone interested in creating something similar or learning more. If you have any questions, you can email us at rd@nytimes.com.
Prioritizing Human Perspectives in Natural Language Processing
This video series from R&D features team members describing their roles, processes and the specific technical challenges they encounter while building and shipping projects. Along with each episode, we’ll share relevant background, resources, references and advice for anyone interested in creating something similar or learning more. If you have any questions, you can email us at rd@nytimes.com.
Developing Animated Sequences for Augmented Reality
November 17, 2020 by Nick Bartzokas, A.J. Chavar, Lana Z Porter This video series from R&D features team members describing their roles, processes and the specific technical challenges they encounter while building and shipping projects. Along with each episode, we’ll share relevant background, resources, references and advice for anyone interested in creating something similar or learning more. If you have any questions, you can email us at rd@nytimes.com.
A Crackdown on Belarus Protests Backfires. Here’s What Videos Show.
[Read more on what’s happening in Belarus: protests, police and government.] Pro-democracy demonstrators in Belarus staged their biggest protest in the country’s history on Sunday, one week after a disputed presidential election extended the 26-year rule of Aleksandr G. Lukashenko. The uprising took a decisive turn last week as a slew of videos and photos circulated showing security officers brutally repressing demonstrators.
A New Life, Furloughed
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Michael Cohen: sex, lies, and campaign finance
On Tuesday, Michael Cohen pleaded guilty on eight federal charges, including campaign finance violations from when he paid $130,000 to porn actress Stormy Daniel in the weeks before the 2016 election. Despite several conflicting stories and justifications from Cohen and Donald Trump in the past, the president’s former personal lawyer and fixer admitted that he violated campaign finance laws that limit contributions and require disclosure to the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
An Islamic Radical Who Changed His Mind
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Trade wars, explained
The “weapons” in a trade war are everywhere. It’s the food you eat, the train you ride to work, and the screen you’re reading this on. “As a consumer, you’re probably consuming imports,” explained Phil Levy, senior fellow on the global economy at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
Michael Flynn: A Timeline of His Tenure
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Why Trump’s limited strike on Syria probably won’t work
President Donald Trump’s limited strike on Syria in April is an established tactic among presidents — his predecessors from Obama through Reagan all used similar actions, with varying results. But limited strikes that accomplish all their goals are exceedingly rare — only about 6 percent can make that claim, according to research by expert Micah Zenko. Most strikes have mixed success, at best.
Why you keep using Facebook, even if you hate it
Before many people join a network, it may not be so useful. But the more people join, the more useful it becomes. That’s the network effect. Facebook is a step beyond that — it’s the network effect on steroids. This is what makes Facebook so great: It knows everything about you! That’s also what makes Facebook so awful: It knows everything about you.
Parkland students want change on guns. What do their peers think?
The students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School helped changing the rhetoric around school shootings and gun control, and have succeeded in keeping the tragedy in Parkland, Florida, in the news for much longer than the media’s usual attention span. With the March for Our Lives and school walkouts, student activists worked to to turn their vocal protest of gun violence into a sustained movement.
Exclusive: National Geographic investigated a top photo editor for sexual misconduct. He left quietly, but women are speaking out.
In November 2017, several women at National Geographic pressured the magazine’s human resources department to investigate Patrick Witty, then deputy director of photography, for allegedly abusing his power in the industry for years to get away with predatory sexual behavior toward female colleagues, freelance photographers, and peers in the field.
Why this elbow is a Time Person of the Year
Time magazine named "the Silence Breakers" its Person of the Year for 2017. These are the women and men who shared their stories of assault, harassment, and hostility and publicly named their alleged abusers. But the story goes beyond the magazine’s cover. That elbow in the lower right-hand corner is attached to a young hospital worker from Texas, who anonymously reported her harassment for fear of the negative impact it could have on her and her family.
Trump Says He Knew of No Russian Ties. Documents Say Different.
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Why Papadapoulos? Decoding Mueller’s First Legal Moves
By A.J. CHAVAR | Oct. 31, 2017 | 3:52 The New York Times journalists Mark Mazzetti, Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman analyze the indictments of Paul Manafort and Richard Gates, and the cooperation of George Papadopoulos with the investigation of Robert S. Mueller III.
Who Is George Papadopoulos?
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Why Trump Hates the Iran Nuclear Deal
By A.J. CHAVAR, DAVID E. SANGER and NILO TABRIZY | Oct. 13, 2017 | 2:29 President Trump has called the Iran nuclear deal the “worst deal ever.” David E. Sanger, the national security correspondent for the Times, explains why the president is against the deal, and what that means for its future.
Tom Price Resigns Under Pressure
By CHRIS CIRILLO, GLENN THRUSH and A.J. CHAVAR | Sep. 29, 2017 | 1:29 Tom Price, the health and human services secretary, resigned on Friday. Mr. Price drew criticism for his use of expensive chartered flights, which undermined President Trump’s promise to “drain the swamp” of an entitled capital.
Trump Teams With Democrats on DACA: What’s the Logic?
By A.J. CHAVAR | Sep. 15, 2017 | 2:57 Mixed messages, backtracking and a bit of verbal combat after a bipartisan meeting between President Trump and Democratic Party leaders have added confusion to the fate of DACA. Three New York Times reporters, Maggie Haberman, Peter Baker, and Glenn Thrush, explain what happened.
Video: Things Apple’s iPhone Helped Destroy
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Trump Moves to End DACA and Calls on Congress to Act (Published 2017)
Video transcript transcript What ‘Dreamers’ Gained From DACA About 800,000 young unauthorized immigrants are protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. We spoke with a few of them in September, when President Trump announced his intention to end the Obama-era program.
Bannon Ousted: Inside His Controversial Tenure
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Climate Change Report vs. E.P.A. Chief
By A.J. CHAVAR, CHRIS CIRILLO, LISA FRIEDMAN and DAVE HORN | Aug. 8, 2017 | 1:51 A draft report by scientists from 13 federal agencies obtained by The New York Times directly contradicts statements by Scott Pruitt, the E.P.A. administrator, that human contribution to climate change is uncertain.
A Ride for the Red Planet
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Scaramucci Is Out After Only 10 Days
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John Kelly, Asserting Authority, Fires Anthony Scaramucci (Published 2017)
Video 1:05Scaramucci Is Out After Only 10 Days President Trump removed Anthony Scaramucci from his job as White House communications director at the request of John Kelly, the new White House chief of staff. Mr. Scaramucci served in his post for only 10 days.CreditCredit...Doug Mills/The New York Times Michael D. Shear, Glenn Thrush and WASHINGTON — John F.
Reince Priebus Is Forced Out as Trump’s Chief of Staff
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Reince Priebus Is Ousted Amid Stormy Days for White House (Published 2017)
Video This video is currently unavailable. Reince Priebus, who has served as President Trump’s chief of staff for six months, has been pushed out of the White House. Michael D.
Video: What Is the Health Care ‘Vote-a-Rama?’
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G.O.P.’s Lisa Murkowski Showed No Fear in Disappointing Trump
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A City in Limbo After the Shutdown
What happens to the nation’s capital when the government is shut down?
How a C.I.A. Contractor Triggered A Diplomatic Crisis
By MARK MAZZETTI and A.J. CHAVAR | Jul. 6, 2017 | 6:31 Mark Mazzetti, Washington investigations editor for The Times, interviews Raymond Davis about his book, “The Contractor,” a recounting of the diplomatic crisis that ensued after Mr. Davis was imprisoned in Pakistan while working as a C.I.A. contractor at the U.S. consulate in Lahore.
How to Become a Secret Service Agent
What Happens Just Before Show Time at the Met Opera, in 12 Rooms You’ll Never See
Health Care is Complicated. Trump’s Pitch? Not So Much.
By A.J. CHAVAR, ROBIN LINDSAY and MARK SCHEFFLER | Jun. 30, 2017 | 1:48 If your only source of information was President Trump, this is what you would know about the American Health Care Act, the Republican’s legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare.
Supreme Court Takes On Trump Travel Ban
By A.J. CHAVAR and ADAM LIPTAK | Jun. 26, 2017 | 2:08 Adam Liptak, Supreme Court reporter for the New York Times, explains the court’s decision to hear arguments on the legality of the Trump administration’s travel ban. The court also left part of the executive order in effect.
Karen Handel Wins in Georgia’s 6th District
By SARAH STEIN KERR, NATE COHN and A.J. CHAVAR | Jun. 21, 2017 | 2:33 In history's most expensive House race, and one of its most hotly contested, Ms. Handel, a Republican, defeated the Democrat Jon Ossoff.
The G.O.P.'s Secretive Health Bill Planning
By ROBIN STEIN and A.J. CHAVAR | Jun. 16, 2017 | 3:26 Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is working with a small group of Republicans to draft a new health care bill behind closed doors. Jonathan Weisman, deputy Washington editor for The Times, explains the reasons for — and reactions to — the secrecy.
Congressional Baseball: A Show of Unity on the Ball Field
By A.J. CHAVAR | Jun. 16, 2017 | 3:38 The day after a shooting at a baseball practice left four injured, including Steve Scalise, the majority whip of the House of Representatives, the bipartisan congressional baseball game played on.
Inside Trump International Hotel
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What Will Congress Ask Jeff Sessions?
By SUSAN JOAN ARCHER, CHARLIE SAVAGE and A.J. CHAVAR | Jun. 13, 2017 | 2:49 The New York Times reporter Charlie Savage explains what Attorney General Jeff Sessions can expect when he testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
What Congress Will Ask James Comey
By A.J. CHAVAR, MATT APUZZO and ROBIN STEIN | Jun. 7, 2017 | 3:12 The New York Times reporter Matt Apuzzo explains what James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, can expect to be asked when he testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Inside the Comey Memos: A Plea for Protection From Trump
By NATALIE RENEAU, ROBIN STEIN and A.J. CHAVAR | Jun. 6, 2017 | 2:53 Michael S. Schmidt reports on new revelations about James B. Comey's appeal to Attorney General Jeff Sessions to ward off pressure from the White House.
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