Haha yeah I got lucky :D
Okay, so I solved the issue for anyone curious. The improvement is a 59% faster computation, so days/over a week saved in terms of the big picture.
The new approach: I simply create a Euclidean distance map where each non zero pixel is now value-encoded with it's distance from my coords. I do that with just two ramps, the Euclidean distance equation, and image arithmetic. And then simply threshold the image after getting min and max. Of course a few things to resolve equidistant pixels and such, but all good.
Oh wow thank you for the detailed response! Yeah the memory thing bugged me a lot, a newer version with the 4070 goes up to 64 GB max, while this one is capped to 48. But that one, despite being the same price, is not available for installment payment on Amazon, and my broke ass can't afford to pay it all at once. Otherwise, the other things seem okay. I didn't know about the GPU being held back, but I hope that's not too much of reduction in its computing power.
That last neighbor bit.
Editor: remember, you need to have a statement about negatives or limitations, can't have only positives.
Writer: uhh you got it, boss, I'm sure I can think of something.
2700 euros. The not necessarily bad part is making me uneasy, are there major issues with it?
Wow, thank you so much for the advice! Means a lot that :) and thank you for the pin!
I will adjust the description to welcome a more broad audience and see what I can do about the other pointers. Still trying to get the hang of how Lemmy works lol.
Not my field, but I don't think it's even possible to really pinpoint "the" most recent evolutionary step, not to mention being able to define "step" in an incredibly slow variable with multiple layers of continuity (individual, population, and whole species levels).
But I would say that it is very recent for sure, as lactase persistence is a trait that really only started (above "noise" level stochastic mutations in the population) when we started using dairy some 6000 years ago because of selection pressure.
All basic science comes with limitations, just like human clinical trials (heterogeneity and limited scope of control, let's not even talk about observational). But I don't think it's of very little use. I'm just talking generally, I didn't go through the paper thoroughly to give a technical comment, but if a treatment exacerbates a pre-existing condition or triggers a condition in an at-risk model, I'd think it can be quite useful because such circumstances do occur plenty in humans.
Oh wow nice! Thank you :) if this grows and helps people even a quarter as much as /r/ImageJ helped me, I'd be super happy
Another small note: You can also adjust this script to include time taken per image and in total. Just using the timestamp commands and some math at the end of the macro spit out in the a userprompt window :)