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Sharks Gameday: Rise of the Machines
Of course you're all aware of the computer that is humiliating our greatest heroes on the popular television program Jeopardy, right? The Jeopardy computer, Watson, is an amazing feat of technology and also a big jerk. Here's an example: at the end of the second episode on which it appeared, the...
Carroll: Judges are Political
Here's a Chicago Tribune article (by Philip Hersh) that discusses Evan Lysacek's prep following his second place showing at Cup of China. Apparently, Lysacek received an edge downgrade for his triple flip but he and coach Franch Carroll could not understand why. Additionally, Carroll has some...
Robot sports are like people sports without the sweat
Today must be geek sports day as I learn about the annual US First student robotics competition via Slashdot. The demonstration videos are, for whatever reason, done in some sort of claymation and are narrated by a man that sounds like he was conceived by an unholy union between a Speak & Spell...
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