IBM Watson: The inside story of how the Jeopardy-winning supercomputer was born, and what it wants to do next - Feature - TechRepublic
First up, DeepQA works out what the question is asking, then works out some possible answers based on the information it has to hand, creating a thread for each. Having got the system to a more manageable size for businesses, it set about finding customers to take it on.IBM had healthcare pegged as its first vertical for Watson from the time of the Jeopardy win
The Scots had been buoyed up after their victory over Edward II at the Battle of Bannockburn the year before, and in July 1315 an army under Robert the Bruce crossed the border and laid siege to Carlisle. Yet they also have their uses, and a tourist industry has sprung up along the coast of Labrador and Newfoundland to watch them drift by on the Labrador sea current, in what is known as Iceberg Alley
Mastering the Machine - The New Yorker
The discussion in the conference room moved on to Spain, the United Kingdom, and China, where, during the previous week, the central bank had raised interest rates in an attempt to slow inflation. In stepping back from day-to-day management and in bringing in senior people, he said he is seeking to preserve the essence of the firm he built while preparing it for his eventual departure
Calvin Coolidge Defenders, Nation, Itself Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world
Find the Highest Performance Coffee in Your City
Hildaj Can I use Tiana organic coconut butter instead of MCT oil? Jaskanwar Singh i live in india and i cant find these coffee beans anywhere my uncle got them when he came from the states. Regarding BP Coffee, I should be looking for wet process beans in LA to use for bulletproof coffee? Is it okay if I make the coffee in a French Press? Dave Asprey Wet has the best odds at a normal coffee house but the process I use (mechanical) is superior
She was found on the highway passed out behind the wheel of a delivery truck that had been reported as stolen in Rapid City, which means that Marguerite Engel is better at car theft drunk than you are sober. They took his blood right away, coming back with a BAC of 1.00 exactly, before pushing fluids and preparing him for the worst hangover of his goddamn life
The Confederate Cause in the Words of Its Leaders - The Atlantic
Bedford Forrest should always be held in reverence by every son and daughter of the South as long as memory holds dear the noble deeds and service of men for the good of others on, this earth. What a splendid vision of empire! How sublime in its associations! How noble and inspiriting the idea, that upon the strange theatre of tropical America, once, if we may believe the dimmer facts of history, crowned with magnificent empires and flashing cities and great temples, now covered with mute ruins, and trampled over by half-savages, the destiny of Southern civilization is to be consummated in a glory brighter even than that of old, the glory of an empire, controlling the commerce of the world, impregnable in its position, and representing in its internal structure the most harmonious of all the systems of modern civilization
The Freelance Surge Is the Industrial Revolution of Our Time - The Atlantic
Participants were asked how much they drank and how often, as well as whether they ever experienced any negative consequences from drinking, such as lower grades, regrettable sex, or craving a drink first thing in the morning. Studies have shown that the independent workforce has grown and changed significantly since then, but the government hasn't substantiated those results with a new, official count
The Caging of America - The New Yorker
By 2010, the crime rate in New York had seen its greatest decline since the Second World War; in 2002, there were fewer murders in Manhattan than there had been in any year since 1900. Yet if, in 1980, someone had predicted that by 2012 New York City would have a crime rate so low that violent crime would have largely disappeared as a subject of conversation, he would have seemed not so much hopeful as crazy
Topic Galleries - Sun Sentinel
What is disingenuous is Micky Arison flaunting his lavish, cruising lifestyle on Twitter and then saying he does not want to spend money on the Heat 's payroll. ( Chris Perkins ) Broward Health Medical Center Hit-run crash along Florida's Turnpike sends child, adult to hospital Emily Miller A child was flown to a hospital after a chain-reaction, hit-and-run crash along the northbound lanes of Florida's Turnpike in Pompano Beach, a Florida Highway Patrol spokesman said
7: Rookie OLB Kikaha Hau'oli Miami, UNC, Virginia Tech look to get rolling again in ACC Dreams of making the Saints have replaced one-time hoopster aspirations for R.J
The LaFayette Sun
The Foundation accepted a donation to its Scholarship Fund in memory of Emily Durham Hudson given to the college by her husband, Cornelous Handley Hudson. Eldridge to her final resting place, investigators in Alabama began the process of offering family members additional closure by naming a suspect in the case and announcing that arrest warrants had been issued for that suspect
Tracking the Terps - Baltimore Sun
(Baltimore Sun) Shane Cockerille may never attempt a pass during a regular-season game in a Maryland football uniform.After the highly touted recruit from Gilman redshirted in 2013, his first year in College Park, he served as a backup in 2014. commits to Maryland Bullis junior Dwayne Haskins Jr., one of the top quarterback recruits in the country, announced his oral commitment Friday to Maryland
The Tragedy of the Commons, by Garrett Hardin (1968)
But the air and waters surrounding us cannot readily be fenced, and so the tragedy of the commons as a cesspool must be prevented by different means, by coercive laws or taxing devices that make it cheaper for the polluter to treat his pollutants than to discharge them untreated. Pathogenic Effects of Conscience The long-term disadvantage of an appeal to conscience should be enough to condemn it; but it has serious short-term disadvantages as well
The Secret Sun
http://secretsun.blogspot.com/According to the emerging conspiracy theory, NASA embarked on the New Horizons project two years after the 1988 publication revealed the existence of Planet X. Sure, looking at Pluto is interesting, but at this point in time you have to assume that there is a compelling reason for this kind of mission, and it doesn't include looking at a bunch of rocks and ice
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