February 16th, 2011
THIS IS JEOPARDY! Okay, we’ll get to that later. Today, I woke up and decided to go ahead and get lunch with friends. So, I crashed Julie, Torrie Bear, and Howard’s lunch and ate Panda Express with them. Also with them was Eric with at this point normal looking hair. With all of them there, it brought back random comments (mostly from me), and quite a bit of nostalgia of the moments from both freshman and sophomore year. I went to class shortly thereafter, went to a WTCC meeting, and then went to the library to study for my quiz. The rain eventually started, which is likely to happen all weekend, but we’ll see what happens.
I studied at the library with Tran Tran and we had quite a pleasant chat…. eventually we’ll hang out soon, and maybe that’ll end up being Saturday. I then went to class which was as boring as ever. I got back my midterm which I didn’t do too well in, but if the class average was in the 60’s I probably did well in that case. Hopefully it gets curved. After, me Tyler and Johann went to Burger King & Goodies to eat, we had an NRHH meeting, and immediately following it with an ICRA meeting full of fortunately only one funding request. The meeting still ran to 9:30 though. I went to back to Warren with Alex, Lauren, and Matt, as I decided to call it a night.
I went back to my place and quickly watched an episode of Jeopardy, also snapping a picture of the final score. It was sad cause I was rooting for Ken Jennings the entire time, but at least he got quite a nice number. 24 is good for everything. I dropped off Daniel’s A.S. application at his place, started coordinating the “Flush the John” slate for A.S., and then finished the night gathering signatures at Earl’s place with Tyler & eventually at the end of the night also Daniel. We reached 150 by the night’s end!
| In this week’s three-day exhibition, Jeopardy pit two of its finest minds — champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter — against the newest artificial mind designed by IBM. The supercomputer Watson took on the two champs in a two-game session that left the human contestants battling for a moment just to buzz in as each question was fired out by Alex Trebek. At the end of the two-game, three-day session, Watson dominated. The computer scored a sum of $77,147 (the total comes from Watson’s odd penchant for betting off dollar amounts in Double and Final Jeopardy rounds), with Jennings scoring $24,000 and Rutter $21,600 at the end of two Final Jeopardy rounds. For his Final Jeopardy answer (which he got correct), Jennings added a personal message: “I for one welcome our new computer overlords.” Good stuff. |  |
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On February 16th, 2005, The Kyoto accord, which aims to curb the air pollution blamed for global warming, has come into force seven years after it was agreed. The 141 countries who have signed the accord have pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 5.2% by 2012. The US, the world’s top polluter has not signed up to the treaty as the new emissions targets would be too costly to introduce. Well, I still don’t know if this is a good thing or a bad thing. |
P.S.: “I for one welcome our new computer overlords.” – Ken Jennings.
