Wednesday, May 1, 2024

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

 

Saw  the film "THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE" at theater. 

The film is based upon recently declassified files of the British War Department and inspired by true events, It  is an action-comedy that tells the story of the first-ever special forces organization formed during WWII by UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill and a small group of military officials including author Ian Fleming(James Bond  series )  


The  miliatary papers  were declassified in 2016.  The  film is based  on    the book "Churchill's Secret Warriors: The Explosive True Story of the Special Forces Desperadoes of WWII by  Damien Lewis.  Damien  is the British author and the  filmmaker.  e has written more than fifteen books, some of which have been published in over thirty languages

Here is the book in the PDF and  also the audio book 

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1E2O5Hpo4m77nuWrPBSC-K9KKqGlSLPNM?usp=sharing


The  film reminded of  other WW II movies   like   "Inglourious Basterds," The  book and film is in the backdrop of  the early years of World War II, and Great Britain is in dire straits. The United States hasn't yet joined the war, and England's efforts to fight Germany are severely hampered by the Nazi U-Boat technology that allows them to control large swathes of the Atlantic Ocean around Europe and Africa.  Winston Churchill s facing heavy pressure to both step down as prime minister and make an agreement with Hitler to prevent Britain's complete destruction. .   The British  Naval commander  ask to abort the covert operation  but the crew continues with their deep hate against Nazis.   The Couple in the movie became  real life couple after the  war . 


 

Tuesday, January 16, 2024

The-Coming Wave

 

The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

 

 

Part II  next wave 

 

In 2012, DeepMind's team focused on building  artificial general intelligence (AGI) to surpass human performance in cognitive tasks. They created an algorithm called DQN, which learned how to play classic Atari games by itself. Initially. later  tried AlphaGo.  

 

Go is exponentially more complex than chess, with over 200 quadrillion(10^15, 1000 trillion) possible configurations after just three moves.