IBM Supercomputer Competing on Jeopardy!
IBM has a reputation for building PCs to take on humans; first it was Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov at chess and now ‘Watson’ is set to take on competitors on the US game show Jeopardy! The announcement, by Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek, doesn’t mention when the challenge will take place, but it does feature several confident-sounding IBM representatives.
“The challenge is to build a system that, unlike systems before it, can rival the human mind’s ability to determine precise answers to natural language questions and to compute accurate confidences in the answers,” said Dr. David Ferrucci, leader of the IBM Watson project team, in a press release. “This confidence processing ability is key. It greatly distinguishes the IBM approach from conventional search, and is critical to implementing useful business applications of question answering.”
I don’t know when the show will be on, but it will be interesting to see how Watson does.
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Save images from a Word document
Last night my mom called and she wanted to extract the images from a Word document that someone sent her and save them to her computer. After a quick Google search, I realized that it would be easier than I thought. All you have to do is save the document as a “Web Page”. This will extract all the images and save them into a separate folder.
File > Save As… > Save as type: Web Page
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Testing Two New Wordpress Plugins
Last night I received and email from HostGator saying that one of my blogs had been temporarily disabled due to excessive CPU usage. They recommended installing WP Super Cache. After installing it on that site, I decided to test it here too. I also installed WP Widget Cache. I’m hoping that those two plugins will dramatically reduce page load time and cut down on the server load.
WP Super Cache: This plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.
WP Widget Cache: A high-performance caching plugin for WordPress, and a plus for WP-Cache or WP Super Cache!
If you’re curious as to what plugins are installed on this blog, you can visit this page.
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