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Makes me think of one of the Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design:

6. (Mar's Law) Everything is linear if plotted log-log with a fat magic marker.

It's all fine in context, but things go wrong if you only look at that high-level view and then step back down to low-level: you may think you've done something useful, but you mostly just threw away the high-frequency components, i.e. the important bits of the signal. Your view gets blurred and unrefined (literally, in case of dropping the high frequencies of an image).




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