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Ken Jennings
Personal blog · ken-jennings.com/blogculturewriting
Ken Jennings's personal blog at ken-jennings.com covers culture and writing. Since 2007, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Ken Jennings's blog for his Jeopardy and Watson commentary, Wheel of Fortune puzzle analysis, a Wikipedia hoax follow-up, and multi-part interviews with former Jeopardy staff.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
For those wondering his blog is at http://ken-jennings.com/blog/
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on “Jeopardy Champion Ken Jennings Q&A about IBM Watson”Submitted How 5-year Wikipedia hoax fooled even the subject's own company as a story · 66 points
HN discussionI was curious, and looked through his blog - he references that twitter account as his own here: http://ken-jennings.com/blog/?p=2437
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on “Jeopardy Champion Ken Jennings Q&A about IBM Watson”Submitted Ken Jennings is the 99% as a story · 11 points
HN discussionHe mentioned it on his forums once, way back in 2007 when I was preparing to be on the show myself: http://www.ken-jennings.com/messageboards/viewtopic.php?p=12... (Tuesday Trivia is his weekly email trivia contest.)
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on “Jeopardy Champion Ken Jennings Q&A about IBM Watson”Submitted Inside Jeopardy: An interview with former writer/researcher Carlo Panno as a story · 8 points
HN discussionKen Jennings (the Jeopardy genius) has a blog post about this as well [1]. It seems to me once you start down the decision tree starting with "I'VE GOT" at the start, your average native English speaker should be able to get the right answer quite easily. [1] http://ken-jennings.com/blog/?p=2250
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on “Was the Wheel of Fortune One Letter Solve Really a Miracle?”Submitted 5-year Wikipedia hoax did not fool the subject's own company as a story · 5 points
HN discussionhttp://ken-jennings.com/blog/archives/99 There was a winner. "MW: Again, I can’t recall who won. Interestingly the winner was the one who identified the least number of false words. I think there was some scoring system where an incorrectly identified word attracted a minus penalty. I seem to remember that the contest was expanded with the paperback edition to include extra prizes for a younger age group."
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on “A Puzzle Book That Drove England to Madness”Submitted It's like "Da da dah-duh..." Simple notation and web search for tunes in your head. as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAlso, Ken Jennings writes his weekly trivia challenge in Emacs: http://www.ken-jennings.com/messageboards/viewtopic.php?p=12... That's maybe not the ideal endorsement, though. Ken is a great guy, but having the trivia champion of the world saying he is an enthusiastic Emacs user... well, it doesn't improve Emacs' reputation as an editor for lovers of the esoteric.
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on “Famous Emacs Users (that are not famous for using Emacs)”Ken Jennings, in his follow-up post, says: "They had no connection with the original hoaxer" http://ken-jennings.com/blog/?p=1900
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on “How 5-year Wikipedia hoax fooled even the subject's own company”Deep Blue's Jeopardy performance was in large part due to its buzzer speed. It also managed to answer questions correctly, but game mechanics also played a role. http://ken-jennings.com/blog/archives/2554
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on “Leading Neuroscientist Says Kurzweil Singularity Prediction A “Bunch Of Hot Air””This is a multi-part interview by Ken Jennings, winner of 74 consecutive games on Jeopardy! . Part 2: http://ken-jennings.com/blog/?p=776 Part 3: http://ken-jennings.com/blog/?p=777
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on “Inside Jeopardy: An interview with former writer/researcher Carlo Panno”
