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Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police (startrek.website)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But the comment you replied to wasn't talking about bike thefts specifically, it was talking about unspecified situations that don't leave traces. You responded to someone saying that binary search doesn't work in situations that don't leave cues not by arguing against the premise (e.g. "but no such event exists, everything leaves cues"), but by telling them that you simply have to look for the cues from the hypothetical event that didn't leave any.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But it didn't, because if it did then it would fall under the second paragraph of their comment, where they said that binary search would be useful. The comment isn't just talking about bike thefts.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

The comment isn’t just talking about bike thefts.

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