How to see this movie
Can anyone tell me how I can see this movie please. Doesn't seem to be available online in UK.
shareIt's coming out this June, here is the kickstarter
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/travelling-salesman-finishing-funds
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Torrent Is out. Download It.
shareDon't bother. It is an insult to anyone with an IQ higher than a flea's.
And, yes, I am a mathematician who has studied the TSP to hell.
Why is the movie an insult? Explain. I've seen it so you can reference it.
The most obvious insult to basic human intelligence is that these four mathematicians would have been allowed to walk free once the government had the proof and a working implementation of the algorithm. Once they have that, the game is over. No meeting in an undisclosed location, no signed releases, no stipend, no $10 million, just four bodies entombed in a concrete block resting miles deep in the ocean. And it is an insult to mathematicians that these four fools would not understand this!
Charles Stross's "Antibodies" was a much better try at this story and frankly would have made a better movie.
I have not seen this film yet, but my first thought was Charles Stross & The Laundry books. :)
shareYes!! I thought that too! I love those books, and I remember he said in an interview the original inspiration for the series came from the idea of Turing having solved p=np back in the 40s. Only instead of just breaking encryption it basically hacks reality. :-)
--Ariston
I'm never wrong--sometimes reality just disagrees with me.
It would be stupid to think that killing these 4 guys would secure the solution for the US govt. Once the US started using it, that the problem had been solved would be suspected and it would create a huge effort by other countries to duplicate it. And they would. Same as they did for the atomic bomb. The US had a lead for several years with that because it required a huge amount of money and technology and manpower. This needed 4 guys and a whiteboard. The 4 guys weren't NSA acolytes, they were working openly in academia, publishing their work. What they did before they started the classified work would give plenty of hints as to how to proceed. I think the Chinese student was a hint that they were on the track. Russia and China would catch up in a short time. Meanwhile the US would have killed its 4 best mathematicians and be spinning its wheels.
You can't keep pure science a secret for any time.
Look at all the almost simultaneous discoveries in the past. Say Leibniz and Newton both inventing calculus c. 1670.
The stupid thing was the ending. WTF was he thinking? Because he wants to prove a point to the DOD guy, he destroys civilisation? So despite it all, the story is just "Mad Scientist Blows Up the World To Prove How Smart He Is".
A lot of people solve difficult problems for the government(s). They don't get killed each time they do. Even on highly classified stuff. That's preposterous.
shareIf it's online in the USA, shouldn't it be available to anyone regardless of where they live in the world. I mean, this isn't cable where individual cable companies decide what's going out thru the cable and what isn't. That would be a little difficult to do on the web, right?
"You can get it in South Dakota but if you want it in South Dakota, well, tough luck!
Hummm
How to see this movie? I'd recommend: on LSD with a crystal meth chaser.
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telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
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