He decided to do this out of his love for the city of Venice and because he thought it was important to put on display the real decline of the population, to raise public awareness.

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In my in my area of research, it's common for us to want to process about 100 images a second in order to get real time display. Each image has about a million elements in it. I 've got to process about a half a gig of data a second in order to get anything out of it.

在我们的研究领域内，我们经常要在一秒钟内处理大概,100张图片以获得实时显示,每个图片大概包括了100万像素,因此我必须在1秒内,处理半个G的数据,来获取我想要的。

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