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Re: Mathematics in Movies

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Post by hurtigare »

BSEdlMMldESB wrote: post #27
faraggi wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I recommend re-reading the OC and the replies.

what is the OC? whose replies?? I think I gotta somehow get a better understanding of Mersenne and Eisenstein primes, but I don't like jumping through 'bureaucratic'-academic hoops to get things explained to me. it's only numbers, I have other things to do

What the original commenter dislikes is that a bunch of "brilliant" mathmaticians can't instantly recognize that any number ending with 2 or 5(except 2 and 5) can't be a prime.

I.e

999999999999995%5=0 999999999999992%2=0

Thus they are not prime numbers.

Re: Mathematics in Movies

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Post by NoMoreNicksLeft »

fosterfriends wrote: post #24

I used to laugh a the "let's enhance" (and still do), but watching generative image models get better, I wonder if fiction will become a reality, abet with lots of hallucinations. At least the enhanced reflections of perpetrators' faces will have a lovely mid-journey art style. classic compilation of "Let's enhance" - https://youtu.be/LhF_56SxrGk

In Enemy of the State, one of the computer techs does an "enhance", and when they notice a bulge in a carrier bag he points out that it could just be an artifact of the enhancement rather than representing something real in the photo.

Some studio hired a non-idiot consultant for once.

Re: Mathematics in Movies

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Post by motohagiography »

dvh wrote: post #16

Community did the spoof of the good will hunting: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vSkzHJ-6FjU

Bit of trivia about Good Will Hunting is that the professor's jealous assistant is played by playwright and mathematician John Mighton, who has had a comment apocryphally attributed to him afterward that the original script was an action flick, and the final version was not-un-influenced by more technical insight that may or may not have involved him. (I don't want to put words in his mouth, but he was the actual mathematician on set) He went on to create a program called Jump Math, which accelerates numeracy in kids. https://jumpmath.org/us/about/john-mighton/

Re: Mathematics in Movies

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Post by selykg »

thelastgallon wrote: post #18

Big Bang Theory seems to have done this right. David Saltzberg, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Los Angeles, checked scripts and provided dialogue, mathematics equations, and diagrams used as props.[4] According to executive producer/cocreator Bill Prady, "We're working on giving Sheldon an actual problem that he's going to be working on throughout the [first] season so there's a…

This show gets a lot of negativity thrown at it, but damn do I miss this show. Something about it, even in the later seasons which were definitely adjusted for a wider audience it seems, were still very enjoyable for me.

Re: Mathematics in Movies

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Post by FeteCommuniste »

fosterfriends wrote: post #24

I used to laugh a the "let's enhance" (and still do), but watching generative image models get better, I wonder if fiction will become a reality, abet with lots of hallucinations. At least the enhanced reflections of perpetrators' faces will have a lovely mid-journey art style. classic compilation of "Let's enhance" - https://youtu.be/LhF_56SxrGk

Love that one. My favorite is "Enhance the reflection in her eye." :-D

Re: Mathematics in Movies

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Post by [deleted] »

gilleain wrote: post #25
fosterfriends wrote: post #24

I used to laugh a the "let's enhance" (and still do), but watching generative image models get better, I wonder if fiction will become a reality, abet with lots of hallucinations. At least the enhanced reflections of perpetrators' faces will have a lovely mid-journey art style. classic compilation of "Let's enhance" - https://youtu.be/LhF_56SxrGk

"The eigenvalue is off" was a nice one. Nothing will beat NCIS though - for example where they 'enhanced' a picture where a reflection in an eyeball.

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Re: Mathematics in Movies

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Post by dspillett »

fosterfriends wrote: post #24

I used to laugh a the "let's enhance" (and still do), but watching generative image models get better, I wonder if fiction will become a reality, abet with lots of hallucinations. At least the enhanced reflections of perpetrators' faces will have a lovely mid-journey art style. classic compilation of "Let's enhance" - https://youtu.be/LhF_56SxrGk

> "... that can bitmap"

!!

I knew¹ people who won't touch SciFi or anything that they think remotely whiffed of it, parrot because it was "unrealistic", yet lapped up NCIS and similar. Always amused me.

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[1] Not so much now, science fiction seems to be more acceptable to a wider audience

Re: Mathematics in Movies

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Post by wonderwonder »

rahkiin wrote: post #26
gilleain wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"The eigenvalue is off" was a nice one. Nothing will beat NCIS though - for example where they 'enhanced' a picture where a reflection in an eyeball.

Nothing beats NCIS in abusing lack of knowledge around computer and software in the general public: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bwUdjeu4C6A (getting hacked through a power cable and fighting with 4 hands on a keyboard)

I had never seen this show before and somehow stumbled across the 4 hands on a keyboard episode. It was awesome inspiring how terrible it was

Re: Mathematics in Movies

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Post by FeteCommuniste »

mellosouls wrote: post #20
quadral wrote: post #3

Is there a similar website for the "hacking" scenes?

Not sure anything can beat the famous CSI hacking the killers IP address using a VB GUI Interface scene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU

NCIS with the "two hackers, one keyboard" bit is a good contender:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ

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