>> ^Zyrxil:

You can only buzz in after the answer is read.


Didn't they used to in the past? What happens if you did it early?

>> ^bamdrew:

I'm not 100% on the rules; are they free to press their button before the "answer" is finished being read? Like, someone offstage presses a button to allow answering once the announcer finishes reading? I say this because it appears that Ken is trying to buzz in exactly when the announcer finishes (though I suppose its more likely he just wants to make sure he's getting the whole clue).
Also is Watson listening AND getting a video stream of the clues? (edit; news articles appear to indicate Watson only listens)


I have seen players use the buzzer before Alex Trebek finishes, but that was many years ago. I don't know if that rule was changed.

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they use ps3 because Sony sells them for under cost. So if you hate Sony (like me), then this is double win. Sony loses money on each console and we get a big supercomputer out of the deal.

Thanks!

I didn't even notice that feature when I read through the article!

And, by the bye,

37:19, yours truly :-)

>> ^entr0py:

>> ^Trancecoach:
The NY times gave it a more critical examination.

The "play against Watson" feature was pretty interesting. Even sifters who don't have patience for an 8 page article might enjoy that.
Yes, he beat me. Though I got 12 correct answers to his 10, he's is better at holding back when he's unsure and avoiding bad guesses. Final score 14:22 Watson

>> ^Trancecoach:

The NY times gave it a more critical examination.


The "play against Watson" feature was pretty interesting. Even sifters who don't have patience for an 8 page article might enjoy that.

Yes, he beat me. Though I got 12 correct answers to his 10, he's is better at holding back when he's unsure and avoiding bad guesses. Final score 14:22 Watson

>> ^NetRunner:

Today Jeopardy, tomorrow the world.


Your mother, Alex. [fake Sean Connery's voice]

So where did he get the video?
The consensus is he faked it? Rendered it... Or used a supercomputer?

>> ^gwiz665:
I don't think the animations of a black hole as a 3D dent on the map is a simulation.. I think it's just an animation, and a poor one at that. (That's only in the beginning I've seen though, so I'm sure it will pick up later in.)

Yes, some of it isnt exactly top-notch animation, I agree with that, but those are visualizations of invisible stuff, so they would probably look atleast inaccurate, no matter if Pixar spent two years on them. I am talking about the awesome bits where you can see early universe web forming supermassive black holes, the galaxies colliding etc, which is simulated on a supercomputer, and then rendered as animation

Easy, God didn't do the stars; he built a crazy-smart supercomputer named Hactar to do it for him. You don't honestly think God would have made Krikkit, do you?

>> ^gtjwkq:
>> ^bareboards2:
But remember, you folks who hate taxes so much -- remember where the internet started. It wouldn't be here without having been developed at the government level first. Roads. Schools. The university you went to.
Seriously, how can you say the internet wouldn't exist without being developed by government first? That's ludicrous. Roads, schools and universities weren't invented by government either and I'm not the least bit thankful for things that were created at the expense of high taxes that diverted productive resources and applied them unproductively.


Have you looked at the history of the internet before you responded? The government funded a great deal of the research.
Basic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet

In addition, it was the government funding and contracts with telephone companies that build the backbone of the internet. Do you think the telephone companies laid all that fiber / copper lines for new customers? No, it was funded by the government. BTW, the US National Science Foundation is a government agency. Not from wiki:

"Thus, the first Internet backbone, called the NSFNET because it was funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), linked six supercomputing centers (University of California-San Diego, National Center for Atmospheric Research, National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Cornell University, and the John von Neumann Supercomputing Center/Princeton) and their associated regional networks in the United States in order to provide supercomputer access to scientists. Today, a single government-managed Internet backbone has been transformed into a multitude of different backbones, most of which are private commercial enterprises."

You can't have an internet without a backbone. The government is responsible for the first backbone that the private networks "leeched" off of while building theirs. Also, the government has given much money to telephone companies for laying of fiber, etc.

I kind of agree with his "a need for a new religion based on the principle of mutual respect between sentient life forms, and on the principle of respecting knowledge. This religion would not have a leader, instead being purely personal to adherents."

However "Kurzweil expects that, once the human/machine race has converted all of the matter in the universe into a giant, sentient supercomputer it will have created a supremely powerful and intelligent being which will be Godlike in itself." is a tad off the deep end.

Look, good luck to him, and he is undoubtedly a smart man... but with things like "...he expresses a need for a new religion based on the principle of mutual respect between sentient life forms, and on the principle of respecting knowledge. This religion would not have a leader, instead being purely personal to adherents. Kurzweil expects that, once the human/machine race has converted all of the matter in the universe into a giant, sentient supercomputer it will have created a supremely powerful and intelligent being which will be Godlike in itself." I don't know how you can just accept everything he says.

People, almost all people, have some good ideas and some bad.

He seems to have had many good ideas, but I think the ones shown in this trailer, especially when presented as this trailer does, are bad.

So, are they actually using AutoAim or is it just their clan name?

You need a goddamn supercomputer to pull off some of those shots... has to be absolutely no lag in your part of the game.

And I believe this particular server they are playing in is heavily modded. One indication of it is that you'd get 100% strength on snipe shots at instant you zoom in.

Second indication comes from the fact that trick jumps are possible in here, I would assume they're using old CSS physics engine settings somehow... And I wouldn't be surprised if they touched up on hitboxs to be as big as the old CS models as well.

Basically: this server is allowing all the old tricks from original CS.

Very fishy video. But upvote anyways just because it's TF2.