the planck teams are busy now removing this foreground fog, a meticulous process akin to identifying and removing all the hay in a haystack to reveal the needle within.
haystack is facebook’s high-performance photo storage/retrieval system (strictly speaking, haystack is an object store, so it doesn’t necessarily have to store photos).
according to frank partnoy of the university of san diego: 「before you were trying to find a needle in a haystack [but] at least you could see the needle gleaming.
i can use a rough sketch or import an image to query similar images from a bucket of hundreds of disparate images — almost like finding a needle or two in a haystack of images.