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figwort
Any of various woodland herbs and shrubs of the genus Scrophularia
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aplanat
A lens that has been corrected for spherical aberration and coma in order to produce.
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trustingness
Trusting
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cecropia
A large saturniid moth native to North America, Hyalophora cecropia, having distinctive red, white and.
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blackcap
A small Old World warbler, Eurasian blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla), which is mainly grey with a.
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denoising
The extraction of a signal from a mixture of signal and noise
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autoencoders
The original paper found that nets pretrained as autoencoders were the least susceptible to it,.
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