The 9 million figure is an exaggeration by an order of magnitude or two. You might want to check out for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch-hunt (or a number of other sources - these all discuss how the myth of 9 million deaths originally came to be).
The parent's claim about having "too much code for standard human code reviews" is just laughable. Proper reviewing takes a fraction of the time writing the code in the first place does. How do you end up in a situation where you have people banging out millions of lines of code but no-one has time to do human code reviews? Is all of the code machine-generated?
Also, why can't the parent do detailed run-time coverage analysis? Is his team lacking a testing framework for this? Why are their banging out millions of lines of code without proper run-time tests?
While you are absolute correct that you can't extract more information from *an* image, you can reconstruct a high-resolution image from a *sequence of images*, assuming that you can correlate the camera. Just google "super-resolution". It's not particularly difficult to implement, but you can get some extremely fascinating results from a simple video camera sequence. Assuming that the camera motion is slow, it's no feat to reconstruct a 1Kx1K output still image from a 320x200 video footage.
There are several good reasons. Listed in order of importance:
1) A good comp. sci paper written in Finnish would have zero circulation; the number of people that could read it is way too small (read: zero references, can't publish in any decent conference/journal).
2) The Finnish language lacks the necessary terminology in the not-so-well established fields. For example, I've published a couple of computer graphics papers in conferences and journals -- I couldn't have ever written those papers in Finnish, as I haven't got a clue about the "correct" (= made-up and never used) terms. In a similar fashion, I can't fluently follow computer graphics papers written in Finnish...
3) English is the primary working language at computer-related companies. For example, the company I work at has all of its code, documentation, manuals, customer communication etc. in English.
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The 9 million figure is an exaggeration by an order of magnitude or two. You might want to check out for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch-hunt (or a number of other sources - these all discuss how the myth of 9 million deaths originally came to be).
The parent's claim about having "too much code for standard human code reviews" is just laughable. Proper reviewing takes a fraction of the time writing the code in the first place does. How do you end up in a situation where you have people banging out millions of lines of code but no-one has time to do human code reviews? Is all of the code machine-generated? Also, why can't the parent do detailed run-time coverage analysis? Is his team lacking a testing framework for this? Why are their banging out millions of lines of code without proper run-time tests?
While you are absolute correct that you can't extract more information from *an* image, you can reconstruct a high-resolution image from a *sequence of images*, assuming that you can correlate the camera. Just google "super-resolution". It's not particularly difficult to implement, but you can get some extremely fascinating results from a simple video camera sequence. Assuming that the camera motion is slow, it's no feat to reconstruct a 1Kx1K output still image from a 320x200 video footage.
There are several good reasons. Listed in order of importance:
1) A good comp. sci paper written in Finnish would have zero circulation; the number of people that could read it is way too small (read: zero references, can't publish in any decent conference/journal).
2) The Finnish language lacks the necessary terminology in the not-so-well established fields. For example, I've published a couple of computer graphics papers in conferences and journals -- I couldn't have ever written those papers in Finnish, as I haven't got a clue about the "correct" (= made-up and never used) terms. In a similar fashion, I can't fluently follow computer graphics papers written in Finnish...
3) English is the primary working language at computer-related companies. For example, the company I work at has all of its code, documentation, manuals, customer communication etc. in English.