Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police

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I believe what you stated is partially incorrect, as you don't look at just a single frame, you compare it to the frames before and after as well, you search for pattern changes.

I stand by what I said. I don't believe you're seeing the whole thing (pardon the pun).

Five months later, and I'm not going down this rabbit hole again. I'll just leave it at agree to disagree.

Even if you're looking at a range, it still won't tell you anything except that you found the guy or you didn't find the guy. If you didn't, what's the next step? (In the find when the suspect passed in front of the camera scenario)