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		brown9-2 on Feb 15, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IBM's Watson starts on Jeopardy Tonight Because in order to answer a question Watson is really executing hundreds or thousands of different algorithms in parallel to attempt to find candidate answers, and then comparing and building confidence scores for each.

tocomment on Feb 15, 2011 [–]

Thanks. Is there anything I can read to learn more about how it works in detail? All the mainstream media articles I've read are very hand-wavy.

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