银河帝国再建威力更大的新“死星”,试图彻底消灭抵抗力量。卢克•天行者(马克•哈米尔 Mark Hamill 饰)派机器人R2-D2和C-3PO前往塔图因星贾霸处协商交换被冷冻的韩•索罗(哈里森•福特饰)未果;后在莉亚公主(卡里•费什尔 Carrie Fisher 饰),猿人丘巴卡(彼得•梅林 Peter Mayhew 饰)和蓝多•卡瑞辛(比利•迪•威廉姆斯 Billy Dee Williams 饰)的帮助下终于营救成功。在尤达师傅处,卢克发现了更多关于自己身世的秘密,也终于决定迎接成为一个绝地武士的终极挑战。卢克回到抵抗组织参与攻打“死星”行动,与韩•索罗,莉亚公主,丘巴卡,机器人R2-D2和C-3PO共同前往森林密布的恩多星破坏“死星”防护罩的能源站,与此同时蓝多•卡瑞辛驾驶千年隼飞船带领各部施展航空打击。没曾想卢克一行人刚踏上恩多星,就遭遇当地部落伊沃克人,莉亚公主也不知所踪……
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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。
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.