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boiler rat was included in my plea for help. everyone is!

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I rewatched that Norm roasting bit. Much funnier than I initially thought.

From 2006 visit with Mud and Blurry:

I'd buy some of your book, Velvet! One for me and one for a bunch of friends whom I know would love to read your travel logs but have never got around to seeking them out.

What poor timing to get a job!

Great, Blurry, hope I can make it!

Awesome!

I've been using OJOSoft for a while. Converts, to 3GPP, which is what you want, right, Yours Truly? Easy to use and gets the job done. kerryzeng, are you familiar with OJOSoft and would you recommend using the others you mentioned?

Happy birthday Lg Mg!!I hope you're doing well!

Happy birthday Hamilton!

Fuck! Got all busy and totally forgot about my buddy Watson. Oh, I found a torrent! Double header tonight!

Awesome, thanks for the feedback!

As I understood it, Watson has the same advantage of humans in processing the other contestant's responses and 'learning' from them. At least he did in the test run rounds.

Okay, I guess he can't anymore...

Steve Camepa, IBM's general manager of global media and the entertainment industry explained that "Watson only takes his input from the question board so the fact that somebody else gave the same answer doesn't factor into what Watson says. He can't hear what the other players are saying, but maybe that's a feature we can add in the future."

That's quite disappointing.

I was wondering how I was going to fit Jeopardy! in with Valentines plans! Mission accomplished.

I think, to be fair, Watson should have a human-like response time in buzzing in. He's just too fast!

I was really surprised that Watson would answer with an incorrect response already given. I bet the IBMers were scratching their heads over a few stunts Watson pulled.

I can't wait for tonight!! Less background knowledge, more game play! I hope Jennings wins!

Wow! So cool!

My friend Aaron Allen is an excellent singer/ songwriter and he just released his fourth album. Finished with the business side of music, he is releasing all of his albums from now on for free.

Recorded at London Music Club, London, ON fall 2010, this six song offering is not what one would call 'cheery' but it sounds sweet!

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I'm addicted to these Americalogs! I've been getting up a half hour earlier just so I can enjoy the latest entry over a cuppa coffee before TPIR comes on!

I know they are based out of Chatham. My brother signed up with them before I even had an email account. Soccer buddy or something. He always had good service and was happy. He's probably still dealing with them over ten years later.

Goooo Teksavvy!!

Passing along thanks from my friend, Lee-Ann, who is moving from London to Ottawa for school. She has a job waiting for her at Kardish!

Great reads Velvet! Pictures schmictures!

I don't think I'd have a problem with it... if the girl was hot!

Is Watson fed the question via text, does it have to listen to the answer and interpret, or does it have a camera set up next to the human and has to find the answer on the board and convert the image to text? Or a combination of them all?

Does it say the question or write it? Pronunciation could be a stumbling block.

Anyone know answers to my questions?

From the PBS NOVA program I gathered that Watson 'reads' the questions. No image to text conversion is required. He answers in voice. Actually understanding his answers is not an issue.

A few things that tripped him up: The clue had '40's in the question. Watson misinterpreted that to mean 1840's.

Another set of clues was asking about the month that certain holidays fell in. From the clues, Watson was giving the actual name of the holiday. Watson was able to teach himself from a few correct answers given by the humans that the answers needed to be a month. Once he learned that he started getting the rest of the category right.

The aim of the IBM'ers is to not have to have Watson 'learn' anything during the show, but be able to better recognize what the clues are asking.

As zero said, the most challenging hurdle for Watson is the 'human' interpretations that we take for granted as humans. Assuming they just give the Jeopardy! categories and clues as they normally would, not catering them to Watson at all, we should have a very tight game on our hands!

When IBM first brought in the Jeopardy! gang for a demo, Watson failed greatly. It seems now they've developed Watson to perform at a like level to the top Jeopardy! winners.

Something interesting: like the regular Jeopardy! contestants, Watson needs to stand alone, ie: not reference 'the internet'. Therefore 'the internet' was loaded into Watson's guts. For example, millions of news articles, encyclopedias, the entire imdb... he has the computing power of 6000 home computers, iirc.

Who else is so pumped to see how Watson does against Jennings?

I watched the pbs special on Watson earlier. My bet is on one of the humans!

Tonin?