Catherine Gale — 导演 (3)
数据的乐趣 (2016) [电影] 豆瓣
The Joy of Data
其它标题:
The Joy of Data
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.
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.
COVID-19疫苗的競賽(台) (2021) [电影] 豆瓣
导演:
Catherine Gale
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Caleb Hellerman
其它标题:
Race for the Vaccine
本片講述了一群全球頂尖的科學家們，在COVID-19剛開始流行的初期，如何分頭進行開發、試驗和製造有效的疫苗。這是一場全世界共同投入大量心血的競賽，而目的只有一個，就是對抗病毒、挽救生命。
當新型冠狀病毒大流行肆虐全球之時，來自世界各地的菁英科學家們，承擔起這個可能是現代醫學史上最艱鉅的挑戰。這項任務所牽涉的範圍之廣、時間之急迫更是前所未有。他們盡其所能，使用各種尖端新技術，研發多種不同的疫苗，以期能擊敗這個人類從未見過的致命病毒。本片製作團隊貼身採訪在2020年間，擁有領先技術的幾個主要疫苗開發團隊：包括輝瑞和BNT團隊、美國國家衛生研究院和莫德納團隊，以及牛津和AZ團隊，一起來聽聽這些科學家們開發疫苗的幕後祕辛。
當新型冠狀病毒大流行肆虐全球之時，來自世界各地的菁英科學家們，承擔起這個可能是現代醫學史上最艱鉅的挑戰。這項任務所牽涉的範圍之廣、時間之急迫更是前所未有。他們盡其所能，使用各種尖端新技術，研發多種不同的疫苗，以期能擊敗這個人類從未見過的致命病毒。本片製作團隊貼身採訪在2020年間，擁有領先技術的幾個主要疫苗開發團隊：包括輝瑞和BNT團隊、美國國家衛生研究院和莫德納團隊，以及牛津和AZ團隊，一起來聽聽這些科學家們開發疫苗的幕後祕辛。