And he still didn't ask a question. Pedantry aside, I've answered his "question" perfectly well, which was "[Can you] see anything at all at 2k magnification[?]" It's actually a pretty vague and pointless question, when you think about it. The answer is either yes, you can see something, or no, you can't see anything.
For some reason everyone's decided that he was actually asking a far more involved question with all kinds of additional parameters which are being sprung from nowhere.
Can you see what it is?
That depends what it is. Being able to see an object doesn't imply that you can identify it.
Can you distinguish it from other similarly sized things in close proximity?
That is more-or-less the practical definition of "resolving power."
If scaling problems are what brought hoverboards down to earth, material-science issues crashed the space elevator. [...] no one has manufactured a perfectly formed carbon nanotube strand longer than a meter.
So quit [publically bitching about all the amazing things you'd like do if only technology was up to scratch with your overly ambitious plans]* and get to work on perfecting longer carbon nanotube strands. Lazy fuckers.
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there's quite a fair bit of algorithms
I'll wait for version 2, with 50% more algorithms.
creamy bokeh
Be careful not to stutter when you say it.
Because it makes the intended subject stand out more.
computer vision algorithms create a 3D model of the world
Sounds like 3D modelling to me, albeit guessed at from the content of a 2D photo.
Minerva CEO Details His High-Tech Plan To Disrupt Univers...
That's pretty amibitious.
It won't go anywhere. They'll let him plea bargain to Second-Degree Shenanigans and that'll be the end of it.
Forfty percent of people know that.
Typical. The one story in ten that isn't a copy and paste of two randomly chosen paragraphs from the article, and it's wrong.
What confusion? Who's confused?
System Administrator Vs Change Advisory Board
50 quatloos on the newcomer!
Megablocks are not LEGOs... proper LEGOs... LEGOs... LEGOs... LEGOs...
Disclaimer: I am Danish
And you don't use LEGO as a mass noun? For shame!
Or maybe we lack empathy for an apparently homeless man who clearly has a hundreds-of-dollars camera strapped to his chest.
The story doesn't jive.
Jibe. Jiiii-buh.
That still doesn't answer his question.
And he still didn't ask a question. Pedantry aside, I've answered his "question" perfectly well, which was "[Can you] see anything at all at 2k magnification[?]" It's actually a pretty vague and pointless question, when you think about it. The answer is either yes, you can see something, or no, you can't see anything.
For some reason everyone's decided that he was actually asking a far more involved question with all kinds of additional parameters which are being sprung from nowhere.
Can you see what it is?
That depends what it is. Being able to see an object doesn't imply that you can identify it.
Can you distinguish it from other similarly sized things in close proximity?
That is more-or-less the practical definition of "resolving power."
If only.
It seems to be catching on around teh interwebs.
But I'll leave that to the astrophysicists to work out.
Why do you presume they didn't take it into account already?
See a doctor.
...far too many people can't even spell LEGO.
If scaling problems are what brought hoverboards down to earth, material-science issues crashed the space elevator. [...] no one has manufactured a perfectly formed carbon nanotube strand longer than a meter.
So quit [publically bitching about all the amazing things you'd like do if only technology was up to scratch with your overly ambitious plans]* and get to work on perfecting longer carbon nanotube strands. Lazy fuckers.
*aka marketing
Go back to Russia, pinko!
Well, he didn't strictly ask a question, but that aside:
I still want to know if you can see anything at all at 2k magnification.
The answer is: yes, you can see things that are 1/100th the width of a human hair.
What is even the magnification on that thing? 0x?
Woah. Wouldn't that mean you could see... everything? Only really small...
For only $0.50, you can get this nicer toy microscope [alibaba.com] on Alibaba.
No, you can't. For $10,000 you can get 20,000 of them, but you can't get one at $0.50.
What's the magnification? I think it might be a bit shy of 2,100x.
and a resolving power of less than a micron.
Around 1/100th of the width of a human hair.
You do not want to know what I'm doing right now.