[OT] You Don't Need Expensive Binoculars

[Quadibloc]

But an article about a pair of expensive binoculars

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/01/famous-xkcd-comic-comes-full-circle-with-ai-bird-identifying-binoculars/

is where I first heard about this free app for your smartphone:

https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/

The page where they gave credits to all the researchers who
created the app didn't say if it took them five years...

https://xkcd.com/1425/

John Savard

[Robert Carnegie]

Post by Quadibloc
But an article about a pair of expensive binoculars
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/01/famous-xkcd-comic-comes-full-circle-with-ai-bird-identifying-binoculars/
https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/
The page where they gave credits to all the researchers who
created the app didn't say if it took them five years...
https://xkcd.com/1425/
John Savard

Ten years - since the page is dated 2014.
<https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1425:_Tasks>