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It begs the question of why we don't apply the same scrutiny to astronomers and cosmologists, who use the same technique on a much larger scale. It's not like a
by TechBro8615 4y ago
It begs the question of why we don't apply the same scrutiny to astronomers and cosmologists, who use the same technique on a much larger scale. It's not like anyone "took a picture of a Black Hole," and yet there were hundreds of newspaper headlines suggesting that's exactly what happened. Virtually every "photo" produced of "space" is created through an "imaging" process, which in recent years frequently involves fairly intense processing steps using ML algorithms that are subject to errors and biases which could substantially alter the end result. But the scientific community, and especially the media, largely takes these "images" at face value, despite them having little basis in any "actual" snapshot of reality. I don't really see how what Samsung is doing is any different.
- its_ethan 4y agolol it looks like we posted similar things at basically the same time - I'd also maybe add that it's noteworthy that this isn't what Huawei was doing where they just overlayed a stock photo of the moon. What Samsung is doing is enhancing the actual data your phone's sensor is getting, which makes it much more like astrophotography processing than just some gimmick/hack.
- TechBro8615 4y agoYeah I noticed that, lol! We even used the same verbiage. You must be a really smart person ;)
- SBArbeit 4y agoAstronomers aren't lying to us to sell smartphones based on the quality of advertised images.
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