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Submission + - Watson Wins (bloomberg.com) 3

Submitted by NicknamesAreStupid on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @07:42PM

NicknamesAreStupid writes: The word is in, Watson beats the two best Jeopardy players. Sure, it cost IBM four years and millions of dollars and requires a room full of hardware. In thirty years it will all fit in your pocket and cost $19.99. Resistance is futile; you will be trivialized.

Comment Re:On NPR this morning (Score 2) 293

by TivoAussie on Monday February 14, 2011 @11:03PM (#35205902) Attached to: Watch IBM's Watson On Jeopardy Tonight

This is probably because 4 species of grasshopper are the only Kosher insects. Watson obviously knew that, which I didn't! (But I'm not jewish.)

Comment Who remembers the Tron guy, Jay Maynard? (Score 1) 320

by TivoAussie on Monday July 27, 2009 @10:12PM (#28846709) Attached to: Tron Legacy Exposed

From Slashdot, way back.... http://slashdot.org/articles/04/04/18/1515201.shtml He's actually a really smart guy, a maintainer (or was) of the Hercules Emulator, a brilliant piece of software that lets you run IBM's MVS on your PC. Play with COBOL. PL/I, JCL, even Assembler your heart's delight.

Comment Re:COBOL error possibly.... (Score 1) 544

by TivoAussie on Thursday July 16, 2009 @01:23AM (#28712841) Attached to: Software Glitch Leads To $23,148,855,308,184,500 Visa Charges

Underscores arent valid COBOL.

Comment Re:but it's not really English (Score 1) 1077

by TivoAussie on Tuesday March 31, 2009 @10:04PM (#27411305) Attached to: Shouldn't Every Developer Understand English?

"As for programming languages using English syntax, they don't, and most common languages aren't even superficially similar." Hmm, never written COBOL huh? ADD GIN TO VERMOUTH GIVING MARTINI

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