Ahaha, is it sad that out of all of them, it is still Alex Trebek that delights me the most? I MISS HIS SOUP STRAINER :( That being said, I find Watson to be incredibly fascinating. It's also really interesting listening to the people who worked on Watson talk about it. There was something on the CBC a few days ago about it and they interviewed this man who had worked on the algorithms... and he talked about Watson as if it was almost a child. It was very subtle, but it was also clear that what they had created existed as more than just an invention for them. (And I had to go back and change a bunch of "him"s to "it"s. Clearly I'm also thinking of him as an humanesque entity
( ... )
Have you ever read "Little Expressionless Animals"? It's half a wonderful story about love and gender and power and what it means to be a woman and a sister and a mother, and half David Foster Wallace writing RPS of Trebek and Sajak a;sldkfj But yeah, I call Watson a "he" all the time too! And that was one of the bits in the NYT article that was really interesting to me, was that the scientists also treated Watson as real. And I think there's this tendency to treat anything that moves and responds to us as human. Like, I yell at the Roomba my mother keeps at home, whenever it gets stuck in corners, and why is that XD It clearly can't hear me. Just like the way they talk to Watson on the game show, even though he clearly can't hear or understand them
( ... )
Am rereading my comment and realizing I should maybe be a little more specific. The vinegar we use at home is Chinese black vinegar. In Japanese gyoza sauce, I think it's usually rice vinegar. I've never used any other kind of vinegar before, because when I make Asian food, I usually am afraid to use any non-Asian ingredients, haha, but it would probably work if you had any non-fruit or sweet vinegars. The kind of spice in "layu" and gyoza sauce is, um, the numbing kind of spice you encounter in Chinese/Szechuan cooking? So it's mostly chili spice that you're tasting. If you don't have layu handy, what I do is pour a little sesame oil in a pan and toast chili pepper flakes in it, haha, because that's really 90% of what's in layu, but these days I just mix rice vinegar with a little bit of soy sauce and sambal oelek because that's what I have at home, hahah.....
Alex Trebek goes around the Jeopardy! studio wearing a button that says PAT SAJAK LOOKS LIKE A BADGER. He and Sajak play racquetball every Thursday.AHAHAHA, DYING. I will have to get my hands on this
( ... )
Click to view
Comments 54
Track no. 22: NO1CURRS, BRAD!
Track no. 23: ????????????
Reply
Reply
Reply
Reply
/TMI
Reply
Reply
...That makes it sound like the robots are going to fuck everyone else, but the point is, Ken Jennings is a wise man
Reply
Reply
Reply
and we could translate it into japanese sex sounds
and then we could mail to them--
Reply
Reply
i was watching it in the law library when I was supposed to be doing homework and making dying goldfish noises in public.
Reply
Trying to predict what will elicit more goldfish responses from me: Trebek's reactions to Watson, or basically anything Ken Jennings does ever.
Reply
his answer to final jeopardy made me laugh so hard i got a stomachache :D
Reply
Leave a comment