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Aaron Hertzmann did a nice writeup of the Moon perspective problem a little while ago https://aaronhertzmann.com/2022/02/28/how-does-perspective-work.html

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"Space Zoom": Wrong in so many ways on so many levels that it's hard to know where to start. I'll leave it at, "Samsung! Instead of wasting engineering effort on 'what machine learning expects moon images would look like', try putting that effort and more into actually improving your cameras." Claims that cell-phone cameras are already as good as they could possibly be are almost surely wrong. Microscopes have existed for over 350 years, but to this day, people keep finding ways to improve them, even to do things that were previously thought to be impossible (e.g., so-called superresolution microscopy can resolve objects 10 times smaller than the wavelengths of visible light).

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Mar 15·edited Mar 15

WSJ published "The American Diet Has a Sandwich Problem" this morning!! Shots fired at the Sandwich coverage at Indignity?? Or is this the beginning of a Sandwich Panic?? Couldn't read it bc paywall, but hopefully Tom Scocca will help us understand what this is all about.... (Jeezus Christ! Corrected "Socca" to "Scocca"🤦‍♀️)

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