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9th circle of hell, now outside your front door...
HydrogenPeroxide replied to !@#$%'s topic in Channel Zero
Up here in Vancouver it's been in the 50s all year up until last week where it finally hit the 70s. Fucking bullshit. I was in Vegas last week and the 100+ temps were a welcome change from waking up freezing in July with the temp outside in the 40s -
Re: Tsunami Slams Northern Japan After Massive 8.9 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Off Coast I put in history in all caps so all the retards would realize this is a major world event. Of course there were bigger earthquakes in the entire 4.5 billion year history of the Earth. Fuck. Anyway, here's a wall of debris:
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Re: Tsunami Slams Northern Japan After Massive 8.9 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Off Coast Yeah, been watching this for a few hours now. Watching the tsunami live here: http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/ They showed whole towns being swept away from a helicopter. cars and trucks jst getting swept off the roads as they try to escape. Fucking insane. They say there's tsunami warnings for Hawaii now too. I remember reading that someone on here just moved there or something...
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I knew it would be a Brazillian or someone from some second world country to do what every driver and person riding the bus here is thinking when they hit a critical mass event.
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You've had some ok weather for the past few days if you brought a bike up with you. I'm going to check out the show as well. If I'm looking at the right event, it looks to be pretty good.
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*highness. good shit tho. and, unless i have a giant cock-hole, the q-tip in your junk doesn't hurt, you pussies.
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Jeopardy IBM Challenge. WATSON.
HydrogenPeroxide replied to LEVEL 75 PALADIN's topic in Channel Zero
From this link: http://www.livescience.com/12859-3-strengths-weaknesses-watson-computer-jeopardy.html — Watson cannot time its buzz-in to the reading of a clue or "buy time."While playing "Jeopardy!" contestants can buzz in when a light goes on after host Alex Trebek stops reading the clue (click early on your button and you're penalized a crucial quarter-second). Watson does not have speech recognition software that allows it to "hear" Trebek; instead, clues are transmitted electronically to the machine, so it gets to "see" a clue the same time that a contestant does. Due to concerns that Watson could beat humans to the buzzer, IBM hooked Watson up to a signaling device that requires a physical pressing of a button, the same as human players. Ultimately in this setup, however, the advantage goes to us air-breathers because we can time our buzz-in to Trebek's clue reading. "The reaction time of a machine is faster than a human, but that's not what matters in "Jeopardy!" — what matters is timing," said IBM's David Gondek, a researcher on the Watson project. "The best players read the clue, try to determine when Alex will finish reading, and then buzz in." Gondek said that "Watson is a strong buzzer, but Watson is not anticipating Alex's reading, it is reacting to a signal. A human can come in before Watson." Also, as mentioned above, Watson is not programmed to buzz in until it has high confidence in an answer; a human can buzz in, though, and by rule have five seconds to work with before having to provide an answer. Human players, in other words, can take a risk and buy themselves time to come up with an answer, which is not a bad gambit if the category is an area of familiarity. Watson does not have this strategic luxury. -
Jeopardy IBM Challenge. WATSON.
HydrogenPeroxide replied to LEVEL 75 PALADIN's topic in Channel Zero
This is exactly what they did. Read it in some article a few days ago. I can't even fathom what sort of math went into getting Watson to get the subtleties of the questions on Jeopardy