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"Sharp Monocular View Synthesis in Less Than a Second"

"Less than a second" is not "instantly".



If you're concerned by that, I have some bad news about instant noodles.


Folgers on line one.


What would your definition of "instantly" be? I would argue that, compared to taking minutes or hours, taking less than a second is fast enough to be considered "instant" in the colloquial definition. I'll concede that it's not "instant" in the literal definition, but nothing is (because of the principle of locality).


Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, §88:

> (...) Now, if I tell someone: "You should come to dinner more punctually; you know it begins at one o'clock exactly"—is there really no question of exactness here? because it is possible to say: "Think of the determination of time in the laboratory or the observatory; there you see what 'exactness' means"? "Inexact" is really a reproach, and "exact" is praise. (...)




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