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Blakut t1_j4ugwil wrote

>. The light emitted from the bolt can be reflected off of clouds and other particles in the atmosphere, which can enhance the overall brightness and create different colors in the sky.

iusn't that what op said? And without tge atmosphere and clouds and such you'd only see the bolt?

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Blakut t1_j31swzl wrote

then why wasn't it enough to wash wounds with soap to prevent infection before antibiotics? And how come it doesn't dissolve the lipid bilayer around human cells? And what about all the bacteria that live on soap?

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Blakut t1_iyhx0nm wrote

For telescopes we have flux measurements in every filter band. And we know the filter transmission function for each wavelength. To get pretty pictures for the internet, three images in different filters are given red green and blue values, sometimes rather arbitrarily. For scientific use, like I said above, the flux density or other similar measurements are used.

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Blakut t1_ivgysz9 wrote

>But for which of these tasks can ML models outperform us at given the same amount of data as we have?

The brain comes pretrained for a lot of things tho. Babies react to human faces. Pareidolia is simply our pretrained brains "overfitting" random noise, interpretting it as faces. Because, most probably, humans are very good at recognizing human faces. It's a great question really, because it makes us think about the nature of our own intelligence.

A better comparison could be made, maybe, by selecting tasks at which a human would be not "pre-trained".

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