Welcome to your Wednesday open thread. How is your week so far? Mine has been interesting – at work I got a brand new laptop (yay!) while Free Radical’s laptop died.
For those of you worried about the Matrix coming true – Representative Rush Holt wins a battle in the war of man vs. machine. He beat Watson, the Jeopardy computer.
U.S. Rep. Rush Holt — an actual rocket scientists, as his supporters like to tout on bumper stickers — tonight topped the IBM supercomputer Watson in a round of Jeopardy! down in Washington.
Holt — who was a five-time Jeopardy! winner more than 30 years ago and joked midday that Watson was “just a little Atari” when he made his game-show splash – tweeted almost an hour ago about the experience: “I played a full round against @IBMWatson tonight and was proud to hold my own: the final tally was Holt $8,600, Watson $6,200.”
Damn, that’s really impressive. Go scientists!
In case you were wondering, Texas governor Rick Perry’s next job won’t be in the field of geography.
During a sit down with reporters on Monday, the Texas governor incorrectly identified Juarez — located across the Rio Grande, and border, from El Paso — as “the most dangerous city in America.”
The misstatement came in the middle of an impassioned assault on the administration’s record of enforcing the border.
“How many more American citizens are going to have to die?” Perry asked.
Will Texas’s wingnutty textbook board change their textbooks to make Rick Perry look better?