Why I Don't Watch CSI
tempura12340 HN recommenders · 2012–2020
1.7M views · comedy · evergreen · Uploaded 2009-07-08
A one-minute clip from a CSI episode featuring the trope of zooming and enhancing low-resolution images. The uploader says it was the last CSI episode they watched.
HN uses it as shorthand for the unrealistic 'zoom and enhance' trope, in jokes about image restoration and software that claims to recover detail.
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I think you're safe to continue mocking for awhile: [VIDEO] This one is obviously comedy, but always enjoyable: [LINK]
I was really hoping this would be a paper describing how to "enhance" the image a la the CSI TV show[0] [0]: [VIDEO]
> When chess was basically solved, it was dismissed brute force Deep blue was brute force. There are different ways to solve a problem, and only some of them are impressive in certain ways, even if they're impressive in other ways. > Today we have superresolution algorithms that can reconstruct license plates from low-res images. You need to take another look at CSI. You can reconstruct a little bit, usually with the help of multiple frames or exact font data. You can't do this: [LINK] [VIDEO] > Many tech people dismiss such progress as "just statistics", but I haven't seen much of an attempt to find a definition of intelligence that is meaningful different from "just statistics". In fact I doubt it's possible within the realm of science, i. e. without resorting to mind-body dualism. That's about as useful as saying everything is 'just chemistry'. It's true but not helpful. And the same way that your brain and a science fair volcano are both just chemistry, demonstrating a simple reaction isn't impressive.