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    "dek": "Adaptive Information Mining moved point-source estimates two to five times closer to the quantum precision limit than direct imaging in reported simulations and experiments.",
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    "body_text": "The Rayleigh limit reflects how an instrument measures collected light, not a hard loss of all sub-Rayleigh information. Adaptive Information Mining repeatedly reshapes the imaging response to maximize Fisher information as photons arrive. For point sources, the authors report estimation errors two to five times closer to the quantum limit than direct imaging without prior positions or brightnesses. The method also handles unknown source counts and turbulence-distorted wavefronts in the tested settings. It is a proposed reconfigurable measurement framework, not a claim that ordinary cameras gain unlimited resolution.",
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