Sherlock is a pseudo-intellect, made right in his guesses by virtue of authorial fiat. An improvement over him would be showing his internal processes calculating and adjusting probabilities in a Bayesian manner—and only then reaching the right guesses.
But judging from results alone it wouldn’t look as an improvement over what the original Sherlock succeeded in doing; even if that Sherlock was cheating.
But perhaps you could have Mycroft Holmes be a Bayesian, and Sherlock Holmes be a frequentist, and that’s why Mycroft is smarter. :-)
I’m not talking about the books, I’m talking about the TV Series. Cumberbatch!Sherlock is much better about substantiating his deductions than the original. He’s also psychologically more interesting. Please don’t confuse him with L from Death Note; they aren’t all that similar, besides being “high-functioning sociopaths with low-spectrum Aspegers, inferiority/superiority complex, and narcissism personality disorder, facing an enemy who’s very much like them except evil” (or something like that).
Sherlock is a pseudo-intellect, made right in his guesses by virtue of authorial fiat. An improvement over him would be showing his internal processes calculating and adjusting probabilities in a Bayesian manner—and only then reaching the right guesses.
But judging from results alone it wouldn’t look as an improvement over what the original Sherlock succeeded in doing; even if that Sherlock was cheating.
But perhaps you could have Mycroft Holmes be a Bayesian, and Sherlock Holmes be a frequentist, and that’s why Mycroft is smarter. :-)
I’m not talking about the books, I’m talking about the TV Series. Cumberbatch!Sherlock is much better about substantiating his deductions than the original. He’s also psychologically more interesting. Please don’t confuse him with L from Death Note; they aren’t all that similar, besides being “high-functioning sociopaths with low-spectrum Aspegers, inferiority/superiority complex, and narcissism personality disorder, facing an enemy who’s very much like them except evil” (or something like that).
Actually that description fits Batman too...