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.
专栏作家凯莉(萨拉·杰西卡·帕克 Sarah Jessica Parker 饰)、公关经理萨曼莎(金·卡特拉尔 Kim Cattrall 饰)、律师米兰达(辛西娅·尼克松 Cynthia Nixon 饰)还有理想主义者夏洛特(克里斯汀·戴维斯 Kristin Davis 饰)是生活在纽约曼哈顿中的四位时尚女性。她们之间有着坚固的友谊,却有着各自的个性。不同的性格带领她们走向不尽相同的生活方式,她们自知自己已不再年轻,周旋在各式男人身边寻找情欲。她们不过是想在那个忙碌且充满欲望诱惑的城市里,努力寻找自己的真爱。现实让她们一次次落空,借着友谊的力量继续向着自己的理想往前走。
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一个带着金丝边眼镜,领带衬衫,褐色头发的男人。可眼睛里却是热力四射的光芒,记得GTO中的鬼冢英吉吗?没错,RON和那个自称要成为最伟大的教师的小混混从事着同样的职业——老师。没有鬼冢的狂野和不羁,RON有的是热情和思想还有成熟男人特有的温柔。
RON CLARK从北卡罗莱纳前往纽约大都市一所中学开始了他新的教师生涯。他年轻充满热情富有创造力。他运用独特的教学规则和革新式的教学方法教育每个调皮的小捣蛋,为家境困难想要念书的女孩打通通往课堂的道路,让有着艺术天赋的男孩得以发挥特长。即使刚从肺炎中解脱出来,CLARK马上投入到他的调皮学生当中。
学校中的题材永远挖不完,我们知道中国的教育精髓,我们看过鬼冢的日式狂放教育,但是我们没有见过美国学校中如此热血的CLARK,年轻的学生有着各式各样烦恼和天赋,尖锐叛逆,在美国这个倡导自由的国家里CLARK和学生究竟碰撞出怎样的火花?何况出演主角RON的演员可是在Friend和The West Wing的Matthew Perry哦。
杰克(安迪·萨姆伯格 Andy Samberg 饰)是一位精明强干的警探,被他所捕获的罪犯能排上好长一列,然而,在其他同事,包括他那新上任的上司雷(安德鲁·布劳尔 Andre Braugher 饰)眼中,一心追求“成绩”的他似乎有那么一些“不守规矩”。艾米(Melissa Gallo 饰)出生于警察世家,作为家中唯一一个穿上警服的女孩,她明白自己肩上背负着怎样的重担,有些时候,这重担压得她都有些喘不过气了。
泰瑞(泰瑞·克鲁斯 Terry Crews 饰)性格懦弱,担心妻子带着一对双胞胎女儿离他而去,因此拒绝外勤。而查尔斯(乔·洛·特鲁格里奥 Joe Lo Truglio 饰)则陷入了对美女探员洛萨(斯蒂芬妮·比翠丝 Stephanie Beatriz 饰)那注定不会有结果的恋情之中无法自拔。