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Thread: Watson wins! WCG a beneficiary |
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Former Member
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watson sure showed us meatbags who is boss!
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mikaok
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$500,000 + 542,954 members = ice cream for everyone I hope they're hiring a new tech to fulfill our wishes of new badges and other new website features 
to infinity and beyond
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Former Member
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Very much doubt anything will be invested into the cosmetic experience, rather all going to research grants as cleanenergy was vying for (and a few dimes towards challenge winning T-Shirts and coffee mucks :P)
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anhhai
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Very much doubt anything will be invested into the cosmetic experience, rather all going to research grants as cleanenergy was vying for (and a few dimes towards challenge winning T-Shirts and coffee mucks :P) crunching on WHAT??????????? No ice cream for use hard working crunchers???????? Well the better be some new drug that keep us young forever and cure all of our diseases, some new filter that give us unlimited clean water, and some new solar panels that can provide 50% of our energy needs within the next few years.  |
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Former Member
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For those and other requests
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pirogue
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Too bad someone didn't tell the bigwig that did the congratulations at the end of the show that WCG isn't a charity.
---------------------------------------- I hope they weren't counting on a tax deduction. Are they going to donate the money directly to the researchers? Edit: I found the answer. It's going to the researchers: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/In-Watsons-Wake-IBM-World-prnews-549333450.html [Edit 2 times, last edit by pirogue at Feb 18, 2011 8:01:32 PM] |
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Former Member
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Fine
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Former Member
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WCG appears again in Fast Company: How Watson's $1 Million Jeopardy Win Helps IBM's Other Supercomputer
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Former Member
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Good
And now Two local teens in no ‘Jeopardy!’ from Watson Two local teens who will be competing next week in this year’s “Jeopardy!” Teen Tournament say the answer to what they would wager playing against the supercomputer is “elementary, my dear Watson . he he he |
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