Comment on Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police

• CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Guy walks bye and shoots someone well offscreen.

  Sorry, I thought you were saying that the guy walking by was off screen, and the person on screen was shot, since the focus of the conversation was about binary search based on what’s on the video.

  In that case the shooter, walking up and then holding up a gun and pulling the trigger would be the marker, as well as the puff of smoke, for the binary search, which could be done with AI, if not human eyes.

  Also they would know the approximate time of death, so they can use that to extrapolate a range on the video that they need to binary search on. I’m pretty sure this is normal police work that I’m describing at this point.

  Having said that, that’s one hell of a hypothetical you made there. At some point you could definitely come up with an example of when a binary search wouldn’t work, but not based on what the OP was discussing, or what others were discussing about two people having a fight on camera.

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  • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If you skip to after the smoke has dissipated, you cannot gather enough information to know that you need to rewind. A binary search is useless in this scenario.

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    • CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Depends on how long the smoke remains in the air.

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      • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        If it’s not “for the duration of the rest of the video,” then binary search would be useless

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  • nexguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You are trying really hard for some reason to fit a binary search into a discussion about a situation where it clearly does not belong. Very weird but very passionate I applaud you.

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    • CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You are trying really hard for some reason to fit a binary search into a discussion about a situation where it clearly does not belong. Very weird but very passionate I applaud you.

      The actual/origiinal OP talks about a binary search.

      Changing the focal point of discussion to fit your narration is not intellectually honest.

      You’re trying to change the discussion focus point to kill the messenger.

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      • WoahWoah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Seriously, my guy. Are you having a mental breakdown or what? You’re accusing rational people who are just trying to explain why you’re being odd of being botnet responses, you’re constantly moving your goal posts and accusing everyone else of doing it, you’re being intellectually dishonest and accusing everyone else of doing it.

        You are being transparently and irrationally defensive all because you can’t admit you made a mistake. Surely you can see this is no way to go through life and no way to spend your time, right? I’m worried about you.

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