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.
港式煽情、催人泪下；
当一支探险队踏入一座无人洞穴，一位年迈的山民就此逝去。这位山民终日俯瞰山间草甸，宛如关照群山的神祇。探险队测绘洞穴，理性取代了神秘，所以神自然要离开。结尾时雾里的吆喝，正是神明在向群山告别。
克制着自己摄屏的欲望与克制/不想与人建立羁绊是一回事吗
今年刚好大陆香港都出了一部同类型且有真实原型的电影
容易被忽视的佳作，既感人也太好哭了。最难忘扮演苏桦伟的三位不同年龄段的“神奇小子”，他们每个人都奉献了牛叉闪闪的炸裂演技，而这又不仅仅是演技那么简单，只因苏桦伟独一无二的人生极具魅力与传奇色彩。想起另一部《岁月神偷》，电影表面上是讲儿子的成长，实际上幕后灵魂人物一直是苏妈吴君如（影后级别的表演），要不是她几十年如一日的默默承担付出与鞭策，打破世界纪录与世界冠军的传奇也根本无从谈起。而往更远处看，苏妈与她的神奇小子一路跑来的成长经历，这明明就是一个大写的“香港精神”——不服输，不妥协，永远相信自己，逆境中乐观坚强，挺起胸膛与命运赛跑，Get Set, Go!
所以其他的东西就没那么重要了。
没拿金狮真的可惜，实在是太有诗意的的电影。远离尘嚣的山村里，人们透过黑白电视好奇地观望城市里的繁华。而城市里的人们却走进大山去探寻未知的洞穴。老人会站在山顶观赏着无比壮丽的风景，也会在夜晚的篝火里和朋友们聊着天泪眼朦胧。现代人的生活已经很难回到这样悠然见南山的环境下了，科技的发展让世界的未知越来越少，也让我们内心都渴望拥有一份宁静。希望每年都能有更多这样的作品问世。
真的容易睡着，完全不需要字幕……老人死去，洞探到底。山洞里的摄影和调度还是牛逼的！
北影节第七部，大银幕上声阱带来的声音体验真是拉满了。完全是我的菜，画面和声音体验总能每过几分钟带给我愉悦。故事本身倒是没什么新意，一个简单的对位法，或许当我们将现代化的事物带到这亘古未曾改变的遥远世界时，消亡就已经发生了。
虽然是郑思杰老师安利，但是依旧要说这种廉价感动网大，还是少拍
风光以及牧羊老人都是满分 一条孱弱的生命 一个需要被探测深度的洞 上和下 瞬间和永恒 高和低 值得一看
香港电影有大陆找不到的细腻，电影非常平，但就是不知不觉某一刻打动你。
日常本常既视感，前30分钟会需要按耐住躁动，在探险小队成功抵达第一个洞底之后有所缓解。牧马老人和探险小队兵分两路，老人象征着时间，从精神矍铄到垂垂老矣，到平静逝去，是那种inner peace的体验。探险小队一步一步深入，到最后观众也跟着紧张起来，甚至担心他们被卡在洞里出不来。我挺赞同这是一部精神情色片的。
你说弄一帮残疾人跟那比什么啊？有什么可比的？能好好活着就够不容的了！
北影节第五场，合生汇寰映。太喜欢了，太奇妙了，我的本次北影节最佳。人与洞，蜿蜒连绵，流淌狭长，直至尽头。大地如人体，在自然环抱下，冥昼，起风，降雨，牛铃，是生命的呼吸，最后大雾弥漫，老人赶牛的声音再次传出，无法不泪目。看完之后，连日熬大夜不太舒服的心脏都通畅了，是某种完美的电影
地上空镜太美了，没几句台词纯靠视觉语言叙述，老人随着勘探队员的到来和一步步探索身体逐渐恶化，最终一同走到了尽头。最后随着雾气降临，我的北影节也结束了。
"你天生残废没人会怪你，只会怪我。"
剧情稳健，选角合适，各种好哭。剧作挺聪明的，第一幕写接力，中点后写揾食。片尾原型好帅，可惜这样完美的男孩也依旧并不是多数女孩的选择。三个年龄段的男主都演得好。音乐太满了。
17/8/2021 @ CC Victoria。在今年奧運年看關於香港運動員的電影確是特別有感覺。故事著墨在香港運動員的現實困境而不是單純賣慘/雞湯值得一贊，雖然劇本仍有砂石(Locker的弟弟和鍾雪瑩的方Sir妹妹兩個角色的作用完全就是工具人)，另外三姑並未有因為同時擔任監製而刻意把戲份放在蘇媽上也是值得加許的。其實中段少年版蘇樺偉的故事比較感動，後段成年版雖然拍出了運動員面對經濟負擔和前途問題，但又開始跌入拋出大量金句的煽情手法令感動位不夠自然。
赢再多奖牌也没能改变生活落寞的局面，努再多的力也无人知晓。
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