• @[email protected]
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    142 months ago

    Your brain is constantly processing the inputs from all of your senses and pretty much ignoring them if they fit with what it is already expecting.

    Your brain is lazy. If everything seems to fit with what your brain expects then you believe that what you are seing is reality and you generally ignore it.

    Generally the mind only focuses on what it believes is salient/interesting/unexpected.

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      22 months ago

      Imagine if we had image sensors that could filter like that. Boom, video 100 times smaller in size. “Autonomous” surveillance cameras running on fractions of the power. Etc. Etc. Just far more efficient.

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        42 months ago

        That’s actually how a lot of video codecs work, they just throw a key frame in every so often that has the full image so you can just do diffs for the rest of the frames till the next key frame.

      • Beacon
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        32 months ago

        We do have those things. That’s how many technologies already work.

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          62 months ago

          Yes. We get hints of this now and then when digital TV breaks up and only the moving parts are updating until the next key frame arrives.