useful lens: Nonlinear Function
Created: January 17, 2021
Modified: January 17, 2021

useful lens

This page is from my personal notes, and has not been specifically reviewed for public consumption. It might be incomplete, wrong, outdated, or stupid. Caveat lector.
  • like a 'useful perpective', but 'lens' implies focus or distortion whereas 'perspective' implies linear projection.
  • Related to many models. We have many different maps of the underlying territory, and different maps / perspectives can be useful at different times.
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