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by lastofthemojito 490 days ago
Yeah I stopped taking this post seriously when I read this sentence:

> I fetched the satellite image tile for the zoomed-in region of each lake center and read a single pixel at the center of the tile, which should give us an idea of the lake’s color

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Well, I mean, it's an idea.
It’s a model, it might not be perfect, but you also need to decide how much scientific rigor and effort you want to invest in this problem.

To be honest, just picking a random pixel would have been fine, too, anything else is an overkill.