Watson

For those of your whose wives love you enough to let you watch Jeopardy on Valentine's Day, you know what I'm about to tell you. For those of you who aren't so fortunate (or don't have a DVR), Watson, the Deep Blue of Jeopardy, kicked the human's butts.

If you're wondering, this post has nothing to do with cycling. Yet.

As I sat there, my wife and my friend's wife Denise kept lamenting the fact that the humans were being beat as bad as they were. "It's not fair!" they said, "He can push the trigger faster than they can!"

My response made me unpopular "That's the whole point. Buzzing in is part of the game."

IBM didn't say they were trying to make a computer that would give the humans a fighting chance. They wanted to build a computer that would beat the humans. And if you don't think it's that big of a deal, that 'of course a computer with all that information loaded on it could beat humans,' think again. This computer has been in development for 6 years. And that was 6 years of intense programming.

Now for the cycling tie-in.

Why can't my cycling GPS just know the route I want to take. Get with the program, Garmin!