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Extrapolation = guessing.

codefined 8y ago
Any methodology for getting more information from less information is going to involve guess work at some point, surely? This guess work just happens to be helped along by having the results of (I assume) millions or more separate videos where they already had the higher speed footage. This is also not extrapolation, rather quite the opposite, it's interpolation.
- hotdog97 8y ago
  Sure, statistically speaking well-informed guessing at an industrial scale, but still guessing.
  - placebo 8y ago
    But that's what our brains do too. We might think we're seeing the world as it is, but much of our smooth and consistent view of the world has a lot to do with our brains patching things up to make it look that way. The thing is, that it does raise some questions - I can see things like fake super-resolution and fake slow motion and other alternative realities generated by machine learning easily fooling humans. Once things become sufficiently advanced, who's to guarantee will we always know what the true source is? Could future training be done on data that itself was generated via machine learning. That brings up a load of other questions. Interesting times ahead...
    - throwwit 8y ago
      Eulerian magnification should show artifacts of the slow down.
  - aaron695 8y ago
    You're playing with english so it's a bit pointless this thread, but you'd have a better argument if it was actually extrapolation, but as said it's not, it's interpolation. Do you consider it a guess that we know Mars will be at location X,Y,Z at 5:00UTC next Wednesday? (extrapolation) Do you consider it a guess that if we know a star was at at a certain location 10 years ago and now it's at a certain location today that we know it was at location X,Y,Z halfway in between time wise? Because you're using english and not scientific words this comes down to grammar and in english this is not how the word 'guess' is used.
hello_1234 8y ago
Don't our brains also extrapolate? I am sure our eyes feed the brain at a limited frequency, and the brain combines and extrapolates the images to create the illusion of smooth streams.
- askariwa 8y ago
  How high is that frequency is yet unknown: "Tests with Air force pilots have shown, that they could identify the plane on a flashed picture that was flashed only for 1/220th of a second.That is identifying. So it's pretty safe to say, that recognizing, that SOME light was there is possible with 1/300th of a second." http://www.100fps.com/how_many_frames_can_humans_see.htm http://www.100fps.com/how_many_frames_can_humans_see.htm

Any methodology for getting more information from less information is going to involve guess work at some point, surely? This guess work just happens to be helped along by having the results of (I assume) millions or more separate videos where they already had the higher speed footage. This is also not extrapolation, rather quite the opposite, it's interpolation.

hotdog97 8y ago
Sure, statistically speaking well-informed guessing at an industrial scale, but still guessing.
- placebo 8y ago
  But that's what our brains do too. We might think we're seeing the world as it is, but much of our smooth and consistent view of the world has a lot to do with our brains patching things up to make it look that way. The thing is, that it does raise some questions - I can see things like fake super-resolution and fake slow motion and other alternative realities generated by machine learning easily fooling humans. Once things become sufficiently advanced, who's to guarantee will we always know what the true source is? Could future training be done on data that itself was generated via machine learning. That brings up a load of other questions. Interesting times ahead...
  - throwwit 8y ago
    Eulerian magnification should show artifacts of the slow down.
- aaron695 8y ago
  You're playing with english so it's a bit pointless this thread, but you'd have a better argument if it was actually extrapolation, but as said it's not, it's interpolation. Do you consider it a guess that we know Mars will be at location X,Y,Z at 5:00UTC next Wednesday? (extrapolation) Do you consider it a guess that if we know a star was at at a certain location 10 years ago and now it's at a certain location today that we know it was at location X,Y,Z halfway in between time wise? Because you're using english and not scientific words this comes down to grammar and in english this is not how the word 'guess' is used.

hello_1234 8y ago

Don't our brains also extrapolate? I am sure our eyes feed the brain at a limited frequency, and the brain combines and extrapolates the images to create the illusion of smooth streams.

askariwa 8y ago
How high is that frequency is yet unknown: "Tests with Air force pilots have shown, that they could identify the plane on a flashed picture that was flashed only for 1/220th of a second.That is identifying. So it's pretty safe to say, that recognizing, that SOME light was there is possible with 1/300th of a second." http://www.100fps.com/how_many_frames_can_humans_see.htm http://www.100fps.com/how_many_frames_can_humans_see.htm