咖啡因
发表于3分钟前回复 :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...?
林建亨
发表于8分钟前回复 :萨德(乔弗瑞•拉什Geoffrey Rush饰)是19世纪的法国作家。他才高八斗,崇尚言论自由,小说中有不少情色描写。这些作品激怒了法国当局,政府把他关入疯人院,然而,专制的枷锁只令到萨德更坚定地奋笔疾书,作品在疯人院里一部一部的诞生。疯人院的主管是一个开明的年轻神父。他也读萨德的小说,对萨德的才华和精神充满欣赏。他对萨德提供优厚的生活条件,让他专心写作,同时让洗衣女梅德林(凯特•温斯莱特Kate Winslet饰)帮助萨德,把他的作品带到外面出版。梅德林与萨德之间也暗生情愫。然而,强大的国家机器还是将萨德送上了绞刑架。政府容忍不了他“伤风败俗”,但他的作品却流传了下来,开启了民众的思想。