Tuesday, August 30, 2011

WHAT ARE CULTURAL SHIFTS, ALEX? GQ has an interesting piece on how Jeopardy!'s writers have shifted over the past 10 years from traditional "straight knowledge" questions to questions that rely much more heavily on wordplay, puns, and jokes, thus at least making Watson a little weaker of a competitor.

(HT: Ken Jennings' Twitter feed.)

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