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mitchipedia Follow Nov 30. 2023 alecstapp o 20 … Still laughing about the time a computer scientist who had his bike stolen tried to explain binary search to a cop Afterwards I found a chatroom thread among Cambridge computer scientists, one of whom had also been told that unless he could pin down the moment of theft no one would look at the footage. He said he had tried to explain sorting algorithms to police – he was a computer scientist, after all. You don’t watch the whole thing, he said. You use a binary search. You fast forward to halfway, see if the bike is there and, if it is, zoom to three quarters of the way through. But if it wasn’t there at the halfway mark, you rewind to a quarter of the way through. It’s very quick. In fact, he had pointed out, if the CCTV footage stretched back to the dawn of humanity it would probably have only taken an hour to find the moment of theft. This argument didn’t go down well. daebelly Follow Dec 26, 2023 i appreciate your valiant efforts but youre trying to explain sorting algorithms to a brick wall that hates you 62.1K notes D ProdrammerHumor.io