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Sherlock Holmes averts world war using mathematics
- siegecraft 15y agoeh..I was hoping this was related to the BBC show Sherlock
- jiggy2011 15y agoI love clever touches like this in TV and films. When referencing for the purposes of a storyline niche topics such as CS , Maths or Physics I always feel that whilst writers need to make their story accessible to people who are not savvy in these topics they should always stay as true as possible to the field itself and not insult the intelligence of people who are familiar with these things. I get quite annoyed when people put "hacking" scenes into films that are filled with nothing but nonsense. Usually legitimate technical jargon that is thrown together in ways that don't make sense. Does anybody have any opinions of the modern Sherlock remakes that have appeared on the BBC recently?
- kghose 15y agoI really liked the series "Sherlock" with Benedict Cumberbatch(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_%28TV_series%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_%28TV_series%29). For the older ones I thought the Jeremy Brett ones (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes_%281984_TV_series%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes_%281984_TV_seri...) were very good.
- siegecraft 15y agoThe most recent one with Benedict Cumberbatch (what a name) is great (the second series just started a week ago).
- jshort 15y agoI find it most annoying when a computer is used in basically any TV show or movie. The actors always look to just be tapping on the keys at random, often hitting completely irrelevant keys to the task at hand. It doesn't ruin the scene for me but it does not make it as good as it can be. The attention to detail in this film made it more enjoyable.
- extension 15y agoSadly, they overlooked the detail that most people in Victorian England actually didn't know kung-fu.
- aorshan 15y agoDid you ever notice that in movies, people almost never use a mouse? That's always bothered me.
- jiggy2011 15y agoit's because they all use xmonad and emacs.
- endtime 15y agoI think Trinity actually uses nmap in one of the Matrix movies...
- judofyr 15y agoAnd she uses a program called "sshnuke" which outputs "[a]ttempting to exploit SSHv1 CRC32." Although sshnuke doesn't exist, the CRC32 exploit is real.
- FuzzyDunlop 15y agoExtending this to the representation of current technology in TV and film, Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror[1] (particularly the first of the series) has, in my opinion, the most accurate depiction of it I've ever seen. [1] http://www.channel4.com/programmes/black-mirror/4od http://www.channel4.com/programmes/black-mirror/4od http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror_(TV_series) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror_(TV_series)
- zeratul 15y ago> I love clever touches like this in TV and films. Me too, "Contagion" movie hired Dr. W. Ian Lipkin who is a specialist in molecular methods for pathogen discovery: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2011/09/contagion-doesnt-skimp-on-science.html http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2011/09/contagi...
- aorshan 15y agoI actually just finished watching the first two episodes of the second season. It is simply fantastic.
- pilom 15y agoCheck out http://thebigblogtheory.wordpress.com/ http://thebigblogtheory.wordpress.com/ The technical adviser for the TV show The Big Bang Theory does a weekly blog post about the science and tech behind each episode.
- whatusername 15y agoFor anyone who hasn't seen it -- there's a great writeup on some of the tech portions in the new Tron movie here: http://jtnimoy.net/?q=178 http://jtnimoy.net/?q=178
- kghose 15y agoIf you like math fun and movies I would recommend the series "Numbers" and the movie "A beautiful mind" as a dramatic portrayal of paranoia that some famous mathematicians have developed. (The linked article is a bit light and in the end not so interesting for me, unfortunately.)
- bitwize 15y agoNumb3rs is, to me, a grown-up version of Mathnet, the math-heavy police procedural parody that accompanied each episode of Square One TV (a children's educational program oriented toward mathematics that aired on PBS in the 80s and 90s). The difference is, on Mathnet there are extended scenes of the characters actually doing math. That was the attractant for me...
- kghose 15y agoThanks for pointing me to that! (https://www.google.com/search?tbm=vid&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1279&bih=687&q=mathnet https://www.google.com/search?tbm=vid&hl=en&source=h...)
- keenerd 15y agoI can only hope that some day Square One will air again. That show was crucial to me as a kid.
- pork 15y agoNumb3rs, to me, is a parody of math. You can argue whether it's a disservice to math or not when it's presented as a magical tool obfuscated by senseless jargon and technical term soup, which is what I found Numb3rs to be (and I'm a mathematician). It's sort of like the "zoom in on B3 and enhance" of math.
- yummyfajitas 15y agoIt's also a bunch of unnecessary math. \ FBI guy: "Hey little brother, we found this remote control car door opener. Can you and your hot grad student talk about math for a few minutes and then tell me who owned the car?" On tv: Brother: "Sure thing bro. Prime numbers and encryption 2 3 5 7 11 13..." Grad student: "I'm a hot female role model talking about elliptic curves." In real life: Brother: "Love to help, but I gotta finish this paper so I can get tenure. Why don't you just call Toyota?"