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Post by huskymaniac on Oct 12, 2021 12:31:37 GMT -5
Anyone else feel like Amodio threw the game last night. Poland? Really???
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Post by rockymtblue2 on Oct 12, 2021 12:39:24 GMT -5
For at least a couple of generations geography and history have been ignored. For many of us that was a ridiculously easy question. Amodio, a computer geek, hadn't memorized that trivia question and probably forgot or never learned any European geography or history.
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Post by vtcwbuff on Oct 12, 2021 13:49:22 GMT -5
Midway through double jeopardy I told my wife that I think he was taking a dive. Totally uncharacteristic play by him. Late on the buzzer and too many wrong answers.
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Post by knightsbridgeaz on Oct 12, 2021 21:57:05 GMT -5
I haven't seen it yet. Maybe he wasn't feeling well? If I understand the way they do it, wouldn't it be the first episode of the day?
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Jeopardy
Oct 14, 2021 7:02:24 GMT -5
via mobile
Post by huskymaniac on Oct 14, 2021 7:02:24 GMT -5
For at least a couple of generations geography and history have been ignored. For many of us that was a ridiculously easy question. Amodio, a computer geek, hadn't memorized that trivia question and probably forgot or never learned any European geography or history. I know we are teaching CRT instead of geography and history but you can't tell me he hasn't looked at a map of Europe at least once in his life. Plus, he was "off" the entire game. Not sure why but he threw the game. Either that or he had been cheating all along and they caught him. |
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Post by vtcwbuff on Oct 14, 2021 7:16:25 GMT -5
I thought of that too but I'm not sure how that would work. He did have a somewhat odd response to many of the answers. Usually "what is" and then a pause for a couple of seconds before responding.
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Post by rockymtblue2 on Oct 14, 2021 8:06:10 GMT -5
For at least a couple of generations geography and history have been ignored. For many of us that was a ridiculously easy question. Amodio, a computer geek, hadn't memorized that trivia question and probably forgot or never learned any European geography or history. I know we are teaching CRT instead of geography and history but you can't tell me he hasn't looked at a map of Europe at least once in his life. Plus, he was "off" the entire game. Not sure why but he threw the game. Either that or he had been cheating all along and they caught him. Maybe another contestant was holding his dog hostage? I don't watch the show anymore, but one of my kids is convinced he threw the game. |
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Post by UConnChapette on Oct 14, 2021 8:36:25 GMT -5
- Weird Al won't allow the video to be played here. How "Weird".
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Post by huskymaniac on Oct 14, 2021 13:46:23 GMT -5
I thought of that too but I'm not sure how that would work. He did have a somewhat odd response to many of the answers. Usually "what is" and then a pause for a couple of seconds before responding. Exactly! At first I thought he was just pausing to make sure he didn't screw up. But he didn't do it on every response. The system would need to be highly elaborate. A mic would need to listen to the question, relay it to a fast computer, the computer would use voice recognition and do a search and an ear piece would need to provide the spoken answer. Voice recognition for the deaf and text reading for the blind have come a long way. So have hearing aids. Use a microcontroller to digitally encode the mic, RF transceiver to transmit the audio question and receive back the audio answer and the microcontroller to then decode the audio and drive the speaker. you just need another RF transceiver on a super fast computer to do all the audio-to-text-to-audio translation plus the search. If the computer is off-site, a cell phone could be used to relay the data to a computer with a fixed IP address. That would need to use a wifi link between the phone and the earpiece. Maybe they shut down all local wifi Hotspots in and around the studio or confiscated all cell phones coming into the studio. |
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Post by knightsbridgeaz on Oct 14, 2021 17:02:33 GMT -5
Anything is possible, but I don't think he was cheating. He? or someone? explained his routine - what is to eliminate any need to think about whether to say who or what, no use of first names unless necessary to avoid giving a wrong first name, and yes, sometimes, rethinking his answer.
I didn't think his answer was so bad on the final. I certainly didn't know, my wife guessed Austria because we all know the Danube goes through Germany and Austria. It actually goes through lots of other countries as well, runs the opposite direction I "thought" it did, and while I am no geography expert, I think I have a good grounding in WWII and still . . . I actually didn't get it right.
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