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0 pointsmindcrime10y ago0 comments

There's actually a little bit more info out there for would-be "Watson builders".

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/InsideSys...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/21/ibm_watson_qa_system...

http://learning.acm.org/webinar/lally.cfm

http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/ALP/2011/03/natural-language-processi...

Of course, there's still a big gap between "Download some stuff" and "Build Watson", but at least there's a trickle of details on what happens in the "a miracle happens here" step. :-)

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obituary_latte10y ago

Yup - and very grateful for those.

To me, recently, the linked graphic represents pretty well what I'm faced with on a daily basis. People seem to think that because a hammer exists, it's easy to build a house.

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