Re: [Beowulf] IBM's Watson on Jeopardy tonight

2011-02-15 Thread David Mathog
Jim Lux pointed out in an earlier post the reaction time element on buzzing in from the (invisible to the audience) "go" light. I only watched about 10 minutes of this, but my impression was that the machine did have a reaction time advantage. Alex T. was a little vague on how the machine was fed

Re: [Beowulf] IBM's Watson on Jeopardy tonight

2011-02-15 Thread Douglas Eadline
Wow, I would be interested in your view. BTW, I just posted some thoughts on http://clustermonkey.net (I'll be posting after each day) I think IBM is doing a good job of educating viewers about what is going on (and what is not) I was pleased to note that Watson got the Beowulf question right (Wh