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I saw a talk last week by Dr. Geoff Hinton, and he mentioned that he'd
been involved in some work (though maybe only peripherally, I'm not
sure) on building neural nets to learn how to correct for optical
defects in large lenses. I've probably got this wrong, but it was
something like having the net learn the distortion parameters for each
point on the lens, which are then corrected with a secondary lens that
is distorted in real-time as the image is gathered to correct for the
distortions in the primary lens.
	He said in passing that the neural-net corrected lenses
rivaled the resolution of the Hubble scope. Obviously (I think) you
can only correct for distortions, not attenuations, by the atmosphere
... once you've lost information you can't get it back.
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