For those of you who are not familiar with it, its okay because its a really old movie. Probably a few years back.
I've always, always wanted to watch it myself because it seems really intriguing and I especially like movies that involves intelligences, gambling, top schools and moralities.
It just makes you think a lot and there are always a lot of things that you can bring with you after the movie.
The general idea of the movie is about a MIT student who goes by the name, Ben. Without a shadow of a doubt, he's a genius, he got 44 MCATS, 1590 for SATS and a GPA of 4.0 in MIT.
Then, there was this professor that specialises in non-linear equations.
His theory is that always remember to account for the variable change. This means that your decision and choice MUST NOT stay constant the moment some other externalities are suddenly involved or purged into the situation.
The apt example he chose was of course the notorious "game show" example, otherwise known as the Monty Hall problem.
Given that there are 3 doors and behind 1 of which is a car, you are supposed to choose a door.
Say you choose Door 1, then the host went to Door 3 and open the door and it's a goat. Will you change your choice?
Well, there's a variable change involved isn't it? The host went to open the Door 3 and it wasn't a car.
So immediately, if you switched your choice to Door 2, your chance of winning a car instantly rose from 33.3% to 66.7%. Confounding isn't it? If you want to find out why, you can always go and search for the theory on Wikipedia :)
Yeah, so this Professor Mickey, he recruited Ben after founding out how outstanding he was. Then later on, they went on to start counting cards for Blackjacks.
But what I found interesting here was about the variable change. You know how the moment one variable changes, the whole story changes?
But apparently, during the course of our education, we are always told that we should assume that we should ignore variable changes for academic purposes.
So at the end of the day, we just learn when everything is held constant. Well, that makes learning so much easier and way less complex isn't it ?
But that does not happen in the real word. Hence, we are theoretically not at all trained for the real world.
In order to make learning easier, we ignore variable changes. Perhaps if the education system were more dynamic, students would have found them more interesting and of course, challenging.
Nonetheless, I guess this only happens in the top prestigious colleges like Harvard and MIT where teachers are confident that students can handle variable changes.
Local schools are far from being capable of handling such a complex thing that was always underestimated and assumed.
Apparently, you can count the cards and you will be able to win for sure, yes, guaranteed money at the blackjack table but you are considered to be beating the system and obviously thats unpardonable in the casinos.
Then as usual, he got lost along the way, losing his friends, girlfriend and all his money after a while.
But in the end, he turned over a new leaf and started his life all over again and he even got admitted back into MIT and he even got the scholarship from Harvard Medical School.
It was really an interesting movie but I found some points interesting.
Like how people at MIT come together to do such stuff because there are a lot of smart people at all these top, prestigious colleges. So I presumed that it will be no surprise if other top colleges are doing similar things.
Professors and students coming together for a business deal to do bad things, exploiting each other's intelligence to achieve something that they believe is easy and sustainable at the same time.
Also, at one point in time, Professor Micky told Ben that they will be flying to Vegas tomorrow and Ben told him that he can't do that because he has to submit a Quantitative Literacy Paper due Tuesday and the professor told him that he does not.
That's because Professor Micky has already spoke to Ben's professors and he promised to give Ben an A. Then he told Ben that amazing things can happen from the inside.
So, when the professors keep telling you that they can't do much, well in actual fact, they have more than the capabilities to do so. It's really up to them if they really want to.
Another thing is that in Vegas, there's this consultant who looks at the screens all the long to make sure that no one cheats or are involved in any fraudulent acts. Because apparently the systems and computer screens cannot filter out the cheats so they need consultants to manually sieve out the cheats.
Which is kinda cool because in Vegas, its sort of the heaven for gamblers and its interesting that they hire professionals to pin down all these cheats.
Its like using poison to fight against poison.
So naturally other industries are doing the exact same thing, the police are hiring hackers to help them hunt down hackers.
Those who check for money forgery are naturally hiring the real experts out there. Instead of putting those really good ones in jail, they hire them instead to help them solve crimes.
So I thought its really kind of cool how you are using "evil" to fight evil.
Yeah, its really a good watch, definitely a lot of learning points and its a really nice movie with lots of casual links and stuff. So do check it out if you are interested.
Enjoy.
Credits -http://imprinttalk.com/?p=1417, belief,net, nydailynews
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