Pretty fascinating and encouraging to see how much was accomplished with a laptop and consumer GPU. Gave me some great ideas. Also happy to see Chicago dogs properly identified.

Ha you have no idea how hard chicago hotdogs made my life! There was a joke in the show about Dinesh having to stare at a lot of “adult” imagery for days on end to tune his AI, but my waterloo was chicago hotdogs — the stupid pickles end up hiding the sausage more times than not, which makes it hard to differentiate them from say, a sandwich.

For those of you like me that never knew they existed, here is what they look like: http://img.food.com/img/recipes/25/97/2/large/picMKCD0m.jpg

I feel your pain. I once watched a single episode of Jeopardy 50+ times in pursuit of timings for a prototype app demo.

I could have a good half-hour conversion about the nuances of Alex Trebek's vocal inflections... shudders

Ha, I’d love to hear more. What was the app for? I can’t imagine why you’d have to pick up on Trebek’s elocution??

Less interesting than you'd expect, as it was for a rapid mobile app prototyping class.

We had a telesync'd demo that let you play along with a Jeopardy episode by yelling answers at your phone. The app knew the timing markers for when the question was asked + when a contestant answered, so would only give you credit if you beat the contestant with the correct answer.

Our model user was "people who yell answers at the screen when Jeopardy is on."

Still think it would have made a decent companion app to the show though...

Trebek's elocution is just something you pick up on after rewatching an episode enough times. He has really interesting ways of emphasizing things, but they seem normal if you're just listening to them once through.