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CosmicCleric, to programmer_humor in Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police
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Depends on how long the smoke remains in the air.

CosmicCleric, to programmer_humor in Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police
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Cool you’re adding information to the question to make yourself “right”

No, I’m not. Within the moment I’m creating a comment I might save and then edit, because in the past I lost whole comments when I switch tabs in my browser. But when I’m done and hit that save I’m done, and then a few cases when I’m not I add an “Edit:” to it.

but even your comment says that’s only the vast majority of fights and also you had to clarify in public

Well most fights are in public, if a public camera is recording it. If a fight is private then it’s probably not being done where a camera is.

so there are edge cases where the situation still stands that binary search wouldn’t work or wouldn’t be feasible.

The only edge case I could think of would be if something happens in a split second and then the scene is static again, the same before and after that.

But even then if you’re talking about a static scene on the camera AI would probably be able to catch that split second change happening, so binary searching can still be done.

CosmicCleric, (edited ) to programmer_humor in Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police
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This is on purpose isn’t it. You’re fucking with me.

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.

Guy walks bye and shoots someone well offscreen.

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.

CosmicCleric, to programmer_humor in Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police
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The comment isn’t just talking about bike thefts.

The OP is, as well as binary searches. Both are being discussed.

CosmicCleric, to programmer_humor in Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police
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Then you should be responding to the “leaves no visual cues” part, not the “binary search is useless” part.

I did, by disagreeing with that statement, and listing reasons why.

CosmicCleric, to programmer_humor in Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police
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The parent comment said that binary search is useful in situations like bike thefts where visual cues are present, and not useful in situations where visual cues are not present.

Just repeating myself at this point, but I was responding to this (the bolded part) …

Part of my job is to review security footage for reported incidents.

If there is a long-lasting visual cue that the event has or has not happened yet (e.g. a window is either broken or not), then a binary search is very useful.

If the event lasts only a moment and leaves no visual cue (e.g. an assault), then binary search is practically useless.

I disagree with the “leaves no visual cue” part, as I’ve commented on. There’s ALWAYS something caught on the video to help determine things. Maybe not enough, but never nothing.

CosmicCleric, to programmer_humor in Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police
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Time does not need luck.

CosmicCleric, to programmer_humor in Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police
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but by telling them that you simply have to look for the cues from the hypothetical event that didn’t leave any.

And my point is that the DID leave a clue that a binary search would pick up on, the disappearance of the bike.

CosmicCleric, to programmer_humor in Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police
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If its all offscreen, then WTF are we bothing to talk about?

CosmicCleric, (edited ) to programmer_humor in Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police
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Do you.

You do you too, as well.

CosmicCleric, to programmer_humor in Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police
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Exactly.

CosmicCleric, to programmer_humor in Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police
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Yes.

CosmicCleric, (edited ) to programmer_humor in Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police
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Yes, but, as you noted in an earlier post, that isn’t what you’re responding to.

I keep saying what I’m responding to, but you’re trying to change the narrative of what I’m responding, to as a debate tactic.

Someone uses a debate tactic of mentioning an “one off” and then directing their whole conversation to that one singular point is not intellectually honest in the whole conversation being had.

The fact that you’re wasting this much time trying to defend such a simple error is confusing. The reasonable response is, “oh, yes, in that particular case, binary search is ineffective.”

And you don’t think I can’t tell when a bot network is using what I’ve said back to me for training their AI, and then repeating it right back at me?

CosmicCleric, (edited ) to programmer_humor in Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police
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Ok but the text that you replied to, that you quoted, was “If the event lasts only a moment and leaves no visual cue (e.g. an assault), then binary search is practically useless.” Emphasis mine. If you’d started out saying “there’s ALWAYS a visual cue,” then you likely wouldn’t be getting dragged, but you started out arguing from this position without clarifying it, which makes it seem like you didn’t know what you were talking about.

Last time I checked, I’m allow to disagree with a comment someone made, and argue the opposite. Just because they say ‘no visual cue’ does not mean that is no visual cue.

You can’t say that you can simply look for visual cues when the other person specified that there were none.

Why, because you say so? Yes, I can. Of course I can.

Its called “disagreeing” with what the other person is speaking of, and countering. Its a discussion.

CosmicCleric, to programmer_humor in Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police
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Absolutely not true. Guy walks bye and shoots someone well offscreen. Momentary action with no visual cue before or after. Why are you arguing this useless point?

The person dropping to the ground dead would be the visual cue.

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