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My Final thoughts on Watons the Super computer that can play Jeopardy(Spoiler Alert)

Tuesday, 22 February 2011 06:18 administrator

Last week Jeopardy aired a special bringing back the smartest people from Jeopardy to compete against Watson the supercomputer that plays jeopardy. The two famous people were Ken and Brad. They each stumped jeopardy for weeks on end and making millions of dollars in the process. I liked Ken more but that is just a personal preference. They both performed amazingly well given the circumstances.

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The Price of Being Normal is too high

Tuesday, 24 May 2011 01:49 administrator

Last night my family and I were watching "Clash of the Commercials". It showed the top american and non-american commercials of all time. In the last 20 minutes of the show they asked the audience to go online and vote for what they believed to be the better commercial.

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Never say "never"

Saturday, 02 October 2010 04:20 administrator

The word never has lost all meaning to me. It's a word that I hear on a daily basis and I never hear it used properly. Whenever I hear the word my mind will automatically replace it with the word "unlikely". Unlikely is less definitive then never. Let's go over a few.

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Shwag for the Poor

Sunday, 13 March 2011 13:39 administrator

A guy I know at work was wearing a Fight Network TV shirt. He didn’t seem that into the fight network so I had to ask if supported them. He said “he didn’t” but he sure likes free t-shirts. My mind started to go into overdrive over this idea.

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Spiders are moving up the evolutionary chain

Monday, 07 March 2011 08:39 administrator

They are creepy and they are crawly, but they are not the Adams Family. They are spiders and they can scare the crap out of me. I think this stems from all the horror movies about crawly things that I saw as a youngster. A short list of those movies would include Arachnaphobia, and The Mist. A larger list would have included Eight Legged Freaks.

I’ve often thought my fear grows the less spiders look like humans. They have more eyes and more legs then us. When they stand still it look like they are thinking. They look like they are thinking of ways to kill me.

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