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thangalin on Feb 15, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Day 1: IBM Watson Ties for first on Jeopardy

A while back, before the game, I wrote to Ken about one of the videos IBM made about Watson. In it, someone said that Watson "learns" the category. The best strategy for humans, then, is to start at the highest value questions.

When Ken jumped into a category, notice that he started at the highest values.

T-hawk on Feb 16, 2011 [–]

> The best strategy for humans, then, is to start at the highest value questions.

Also because doing that searches for Daily Doubles, which are concentrated at the higher value clues.

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