Ah blankfist, I can always count on you to downvote my comments. Sometimes I just sit and watch the little "negative one" pop up. I sing the Jeopardy theme song while I wait. "Ding," there it is.

What bothers you about what I wrote? Did I say something untrue?

Or maybe too true and you don't like it.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'jeopardy, kids week, neil, confidence, stammer, July 7 2011' to 'jeopardy, kids week, neil, confidence, stammer, July 7 2011, oh darn' - edited by calvados

Saving someone's life IS great, and wonderful. It is not automatically heroic. That depends on how the life was saved. A guy who throws himself on a grenade to save the lifes of his comrades is heroic. A paramedic saving someone's life on a very normal situation, is not heroic at all. It should be respected, and valued, but it's not heroic. However, a paramedic trying to save someone shot, in a crossfire, is indeed a hero.

Basically, if your life was not in jeopardy (directly or indirectly) you're not a hero for saving someone's life.

edit: wait, that's not right actually. If there's no self-sacrifice involved, you're not a hero. It shouldn't need to be at the cost of your own life. Let's say someone who gives away absolutely everything they have to try and help others. That's a hero as well.

edit 2: Oh, and today I ate some donuts, so yeah, I'm a god damn hero!

>> ^Drachen_Jager:

Why is that a good reason to watch? Idiot has a half dozen real swords lying about but he chooses to use a wooden one?
Nah, I liked the first book, second was meh, by the third I'd had enough.


The key to enjoyment of the series is using the same mentality that women use to enjoy the movies based on Jane Austin novels. In those movies, you have to care deeply for the characters mentioned and ignore the destitute poverty of the common folk of that era. Cry deeply for the wannabe noble woman that has her reputation in so much jeopardy that she might not be able to marry the guy who inherits 50k pounds - ignore the other 90% of the population that would cut their fingers off to feed their children if they didn't need those fingers to work for the nobility.

In this series, you need to think of the 'small folk' as subhuman. Their sole purpose is to get raped and killed and provide blade fodder for the worthy. Care fiercely for the rightful heir that is favored by the gods, and don't shed a tear for the father that has to watch his sons sliced up in front of him and his wife and daughter raped by that rightful heirs banner men in order to send a message.

If you can do this, the series is pure gold and will provide many hours of entertainment.

Honestly, after the 4th novel, I really don't care who wins in the end. All the characters are so blood thirsty I'm cheering for the Others at this point. I guess i'm still cheering for the Starks, but they've been through so much hell that their souls must be empty shells by now. Like torture victims that are so far gone that the best thing you can do for them is kill them.

This whole exercise on Jeopardy was a complete waste. Why does every second week of Jeopardy have to be some nonsense? I'll tell you why... so that dumb assholes can watch it periodcally.

>> ^Drachen_Jager:

Yeah, Watson is a bit of a cheat. Give him average human reflexes if you want to test how good he is at Jeopardy. We all know a computer can beat a human in the reflexes department.


Not just reflexes...give him human humility or doubt. That'll be enough to slow him right down and start Hunting Sarah Conor!

Yeah, Watson is a bit of a cheat. Give him average human reflexes if you want to test how good he is at Jeopardy. We all know a computer can beat a human in the reflexes department.

The only way the questions could be harder for Watson would be puns, or a play on words. No matter how hard a person might find the questions, Watson uses the same method for finding answers to every one. Not sure why this is such a problem for some folks. Planes can land themselves, why cant a computer with years of research behind it be good at Jeopardy?

>> ^Truckchase:

>> ^ant:

>> ^Truckchase:

>> ^ant:

Wait, I missed a Frontline episode? Dang it!


My bad, it was Nova. The Frontline episode from this last week was about sex slaves. Slightly different...


Oh. I have the whole documentary submitted on http://videosift.com/video/Smartest-Machine-on-Earth-IBM-Watson ... I only upvoted yours since it was IBM Watson. Heh.
Ant, you know that Watson can't love you back right?


I love you.

Everyone knows you were texting the Jeopardy! answers to Watson.

>> ^ant:

>> ^Truckchase:
>> ^ant:
Wait, I missed a Frontline episode? Dang it!

My bad, it was Nova. The Frontline episode from this last week was about sex slaves. Slightly different...

Oh. I have the whole documentary submitted on http://videosift.com/video/Smartest-Machine-on-Earth-IBM-Watson ... I only upvoted yours since it was IBM Watson. Heh.
Ant, you know that Watson can't love you back right?

>> ^Truckchase:

>> ^ant:
Wait, I missed a Frontline episode? Dang it!

My bad, it was Nova. The Frontline episode from this last week was about sex slaves. Slightly different...


Oh. I have the whole documentary submitted on http://videosift.com/video/Smartest-Machine-on-Earth-IBM-Watson ... I only upvoted yours since it was IBM Watson. Heh.

>> ^ant:

Wait, I missed a Frontline episode? Dang it!


My bad, it was Nova. The Frontline episode from this last week was about sex slaves. Slightly different...

WTF? I didn't hear any of those students say anything about a highly elliptical orbit. What they said was that the seasons are caused by the earth being closer or further away from the sun during the seasons. Which is basically right. The northern hemisphere is closer to the sun during the summer, and is further away from the sun during the winter. F--k me, but I didn't see the Jeopardy set behind them requiring a specific phrase for the answer.

(Yes, I'm aware that the angle of incidence of sunlight is more relevant, but ffs, these are art students, according to the video's first few moments. I would not expect them to have solid mathematical understanding of astrophysical concepts.)

In case I'm not clear, to me it's irrelevant whether I caught that it uses voice or not. Whether it gets the clues as text or as voice it's about the language processing. I did not miss that part. I just don't give enough of a shit to want another week of goofy Jeopardy episodes.