I graduated with an Engineering degree from a top-notch fancy college…

Ted's Hair
I thought it looked MUCH better with a side part than the bed-head he's been wearing.

That can't be the best example. Even the biggest Born booster would rank that as Springsteen's 6th best album.

I submit "Marge be not Proud"

Bart's Soul
"There's no such thing as a soul! It's just something they made up to scare kids, like the Boogie Man or Michael Jackson."

I'm sorry cookie, I didn't hear anything you said, because all I heard was "OBAMACARE IS SOCIALIST AND THE GOVERNMENT WANTS TO MAKE YOU BUY INSURANCE TO FUND FREE ABORTIONS TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS!!!!!!!"

I'd have to agree with Asuka here. Obama won the presidency by saying "hope" and "change" over and over again.

Hey That Song's, have you ever met someone that likes sports, or have you just pieced together your ideas about sports fans from watching beer commercials?

Um, people like touchdowns. It's not just the concussion rules, every rule change since the forward pass has benefited the offense and punished the defense, with the exceptions of moving the goal posts to the back of the endzone and the play clock… but those rules were put in to get more touchdowns.

I hate the "don't want concussions, don't play football" argument. Just because a job involves risk the employer is off the hook for employee safety? Huh?

I'm not sure I'm on board with Poker being the next challenge. There is too much luck involved. In the long game, yes, making all the "right" moves will put you ahead, but in short term situations (tournaments), novices saying "what the hell. all in" can and do beat seasoned experts.

I actually took your suggestion and counted Placeholder… for Day 3 it was in the 55-65% range.

Actually from tonight's show, (thanks j-archive) it looks like Watson only knew about 53% of the right answers, yet still had 23 K going into final.

Somebody at IBM thought it would be funny for watson's wagers to all end in 7 though. Asshole.

Some back of the envelope calculations tell me that a machine that can ring in with computer precision and knows the answer to 50% of the questions will beat 2 humans that each know 80% of the questions 27000-8000-8000 going into final jeopardy.

OK I exaggerated, and now I'm getting all mathy. Ignoring DDs and Final Jeopardy, and only ringing in when confident, 35000 playing alone means getting 64% of the clues right. If you are forced to answer the remaining, this goes down to 16K.

Here is how the Jeopardy buzzer works. When Alex is done reading a question, 3 sets of lights around the board light up. If you press the buzzer before the lights, you get locked out long enough for someone else to ring in. I assume that Watson is receiving some sort of electronic signal that is simultaneous to the…

WUSA
Is channel 9 in DC.

I think it would be much more interesting if the computer had more of a human reaction time on the buzzer… he's only kicking ass because the other guys can't ring in, and thats something that we already knew a computer could beat people at.

I'd imagine the response from the hipsters was the same you get from 90% of people you yell shit out of a car at?