• teft@startrek.website
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, pigs don’t like to be corrected. Or made to look like they don’t know what they’re doing.

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    This argument did not go well

    You can’t convince people to do their job with logic when they just don’t want to do their job. After minorities, the thing cops hate most is doing their job.

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    11 months ago

    I thought this had to be hyperbole, so I did the math myself. I’m assuming human history is 200,000 years as google says, and we want to narrow this down to the second the bike disappeared. also that the bike instantly vanished so there’s no partially existing bike.

    each operation divides the time left in half, so to get from 200k years (6.311×10^12 seconds) to 1 would take ~42.58 divisions, call it 43. even if we take a minute on average to seek and decide whether the bike is there or not it would still be less than an hour of manual sorting

    hell, at 60fps it would only take another 6 divisions to narrow it down to a single frame, still under an hour

    edit: to use the entire hour we’d need a couple more universes worth of video time to sort through, 36.5 billion years worth to be exact. or a measly 609 million years if we need to find that single frame at 60fps

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      I regularly bisect commits in the range of 200k (on the low end) for finding causes of bugs. It takes me minutes. Pretty crazy

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      History is about 10k years, the 200k years is mostly pre-history. People didn’t write stuff down until they invented agriculture and needed to track trade between owners, workers, etc

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      11 months ago

      Combine AI image/visual-pattern recognition and quantum computing, and this search could be completed before it was even started.

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      11 months ago

      Ever heard of a logarithm? If you haven’t, you just reinvented it.

      Also, your math is wrong: log base 2 of 200,000 is ~18

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    11 months ago

    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.

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

      But you will see the event happen though.

      It’s a matter of if you can identify who the perpetrator is or not, but at least that due diligence should be done by police, looking at the person doing the crime and see if they can be identified.

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        11 months ago

        But you will see the event happen though.

        Not with a binary search.

        Edit: just collapse this thread and move on. Cosmic Cleric is an obvious troll.

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    This post just shows that the police rarely if ever review any video as this method would’ve been learned as a result of repeatedly reviewing video.