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IBM Research
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IBM Research is the company blog at ibmresearchnews.blogspot.com, writing about ai and science. Since 2011, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this IBM Research blog's post on how Watson, IBM's Jeopardy system, times its buzzer. One commenter quotes its point that Watson reacts to clues rather than anticipating them.
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What Hacker News says?
I just submitted this story ( http://ibmresearchnews.blogspot.com/2010/12/how-watson-sees-... ), but here is a quote from it that was interesting: "The best human contestants don’t wait for, but instead anticipate when Trebek will finish reading a clue. They time their “buzz” for the instant when the last word leaves Trebek’s mouth and the “Buzzer Enable” light turns on. Watson cannot anticipate. He can only react t…
Comment linking /2010/12/how-watson-sees-hears-and-speaks-to.html
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