Wednesday, February 16th, 2011
BREAKING: IBM’s question answering computer,
Watson, defeats Jeopardy
champions
Ken Jennings
and
Brad Rutter! Not to detract from IBM’s achievement but I’m
disappointed by the buzzer aspect of this. Background: Watson gets
the question (or “clue” or “answer” as
they call it on Jeopardy) as plain text at the same moment that
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Tuesday, February 1st, 2011
When I was a kid we had a small black & white television that
never quite worked right. If you positioned the rabbit ears just
so---and no one turned on the kitchen blender---the signal to snow
ratio would be just barely high enough to make it through an
episode of "The Cosby Show." Humans are...
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music,
vision
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