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类型:纪录片
语言:英语
年代:未知
简介: A witty, exhilarating and mind-expanding exploration of the word of our times - data - with mathematician Dr Hannah Fry. Following in the footsteps of BBC Four's previous gleefully nerdy, award-winning maths films The Joy of Stats, Tails you Win - The Science of Chance and The Joy of Logic, this new high-tech romp reveals exactly what data is and how it is captured, stored, shared and made sense of. Fry also tells the story of the engineers of the data age, people most of us have never heard of despite the fact they brought about a technological and philosophical revolution. For Hannah Fry, the joy of data is all about spotting patterns. She's Lecturer in the Mathematics of Cities at UCL as well as being the presenter of the BBC series Trainspotting Live and City in the Sky, and she sees data as the essential bridge between two universes - the tangible, noisy, messy world that we see and experience, and the clean, ordered, elegant world of maths, where everything can be captured beautifully with equations. Along the way the film reveals the connection between Scrabble scores and online movie streaming, explains why a herd of Wiltshire dairy cows are wearing pedometers, and uncovers the remarkable network map of Wikipedia. What's the mystery link between 'marmalade' and 'One Direction'? The Joy of Data also hails the giant contribution of Claude Shannon, the American mathematician and electrical engineer who, in an attempt to solve the problem of noisy telephone lines, devised a way to digitise all information. It was Shannon, father of the 'bit', who singlehandedly launched the 'information age'. Meanwhile, the green lawns of Britain's National Physical Laboratory host a race between its young apprentices in order to demonstrate how and why data moves quickly and successfully around modern data networks. It's all thanks to the brilliant technique first invented there in the 1960s by Welshman Donald Davies - packet switching - without which there would be no internet as we know it. But what of the future, big data and artificial intelligence? Should we be worried by the pace of change, and what our own data could and should be used for? Ultimately, Fry concludes, data has empowered all of us. We must have machines at our side if we're to find patterns in the modern-day data deluge. But, Fry believes, regardless of AI and machine learning, it will always take us to find the meaning in them.
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类型:纪录片
主演:Dave Cliff Kieran Edwards Peter Hen
语言:英语
年代:未知
简介: A sharp, witty, mind-expanding and exuberant foray into the world of logic with computer scientist Professor Dave Cliff. Following in the footsteps of the award-winning 'The Joy of Stats' and its sequel, 'Tails You Win - The Science of Chance', this film takes viewers on a new rollercoaster ride through philosophy, maths, science and technology- all of which, under the bonnet, run on logic. Wielding the same wit and wisdom, animation and gleeful nerdery as its predecessors, this film journeys from Aristotle to Alice in Wonderland, sci-fi to supercomputers to tell the fascinating story of the quest for certainty and the fundamentals of sound reasoning itself. Dave Cliff, professor of computer science and engineering at Bristol University, is no abstract theoretician. 15 years ago he combined logic and a bit of maths to write one of the first computer programs to outperform humans at trading stocks and shares. Giving away the software for free, he says, was not his most logical move... With the help of 25 seven-year-olds, Professor Cliff creates, for the first time ever, a computer made entirely of children, running on nothing but logic. We also meet the world's brainiest whizz-kids, competing at the International Olympiad of Informatics in Brisbane, Australia. 'The Joy of Logic' also hails logic's all-time heroes: George Boole who moved logic beyond philosophy to mathematics; Bertrand Russell, who took 360+ pages but heroically proved that 1 + 1 = 2; Kurt Godel, who brought logic to its knees by demonstrating that some truths are unprovable; and Alan Turing, who, with what Cliff calls an 'almost exquisite paradox', was inspired by this huge setback to logic to conceive the computer. Ultimately, the film asks, can humans really stay ahead? Could today's generation of logical computing machines be smarter than us? What does that tell us about our own brains, and just how 'logical' we really are...?
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类型:剧情片
主演:Jerome Pradon Glenn Carter Fred Joh
语言:英语
年代:未知
简介:这部音乐剧DVD取材于耶稣的生平事迹,韦伯创新地将严肃的宗教故事和前卫的摇滚音乐联系起来,是一部艺术表现非常大胆、思想性也极为深刻的作品。如果说《约瑟夫与神奇彩衣》是对圣经故事的图解,那么《万世巨星》从表面上看简直就是对传统的颠覆与反动:上帝的儿子耶稣不再时刻带着圣哲的光环,他有软弱,有动摇,更多的人性代替了神性;犹大卖主也不是出自贪婪,而是出自上帝安排的命运,自杀后的犹大穿着白袍带领一个天使唱诗班向耶稣提出几个哲学问题,耶稣竟然也不知道答案。细心的读者不难看出这样的情节安排和电影《耶稣基督的最后诱惑》的相似之处,与后者一样,该剧刚一推出,便遭到了正统宗教人士的强烈抗议,这反而增加了它的知名度,其插曲《我不知如何爱他》(Idon\\'tknowhowtoloveHim)、《万世巨星》(Superstar)长时间徘徊在各大唱片排行榜上。\r笔者感觉此剧的本意和《耶稣基督的最后诱惑》一样,并不在于离经叛道,而是通过曲折的形式表现殉道者对神的服从,因为在该剧的最后,耶稣依照神的安排为人类的罪舍身又复活,并在原谅了他的敌人后升天而去。如果你对基督教有较深了解的话,相信该剧还是能够给你一些不同角度的思考。当然,撇开背景不谈,即便单单作为一出摇滚音乐剧来欣赏,这盘DVD也是不容错过的。该剧的另一个版本是1973年由环球影片公司出品的同名电影。\r式圣经片给人更亲切的感觉。安德鲁.莱特韦伯创作的插曲优美动听,全片摄影和剪接都具一流水准。
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类型:动画电影
主演:卡玛尼·格里芬 John Hawkinson 克里斯·韦奇
语言:英语
年代:未知
简介:两万年前的冰河时代,超级不靠谱的希德(约翰·雷吉扎莫 John Leguizamo 配音)带领海狸、食蚁兽、雕齿兽宝宝们展开野营旅行。希德自称森林的主人,大自然的儿子,但看起来它完全没有任何野外生存的经验,先是被马蜂狠命地蜇了一通,还跌落悬崖,接着小家伙们又在它的带领下成功迷路,希德还误尝有毒植物脑袋肿得像个皮球。虽然承受着来自小家伙们的不信任感和鄙视,可是这个超级自信的家伙丝毫不为所动,继续在它犯傻的道路上越走越远。此时此刻,无论是希德还是小宝宝们都没想到,它的无心举止将创造怎样神奇的地貌与历史……
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类型:纪录片
语言:英语
年代:未知
简介:Artificial Intelligence is starting to transform healthcare beyond recognition. The vision for tech companies is to get AI computers to diagnose diseases as well as a human doctor, which could ultimately result in accessible, more affordable, better healthcare for almost everyone. In a world with a chronic shortage of doctors, but where even the very poor own mobile phones, it ...