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We assumed that Jennings headed into Final Jeopardy with at most one other player in contention to win.

When we combine these probabilities, we see that Jennings only has about a 2.1 percent chance of losing.

And people from a prior generation laughed at the idea of Peter Jennings being 'journalistic' and pinned their ideals on Brinkley and Huntley.

It is highly unlikely that whatever Jennings is suffering from now had anything to do with the flu vaccine she received in August.

Ken Jennings is a major outlier though, even among men [1].

Yes, the fidonet sections with Jennings are my favorite part.

This is incorrect and overstates his dominance because (1) it assumes Jennings will be ahead, something that won't always happen against Rutter/Jennings/Collins/Chu/Craig level players and (2) the lock up and opponent knowing Final Jeopardy conditions are not independent.

This is the exact thing I would expect Ken Jennings to write about.

What Ken Jennings accomplished is remarkable by any interpretation.

When you say that they're not independent, do you mean that the probability that the person knows the Final Jeopardy question is higher because they've managed to keep Ken Jennings from running away with it (i.e.

Then we assumed that in order for Jennings to lose, this sequence of events has to happen: The game must not be locked up, Jennings must get the Final Jeopardy question wrong, and the other contender must get it right.

> And when Jennings went up against IBM’s Watson in a special competition, the computer’s biggest advantage was not its knowledge base but rather an optimized buzzer timing So the computer's most effective weapon against Jennings was a 555 timer?

This part of the article is key: "The night before the demonstration was Valentine’s Day, but despite their normally active social lives, Snyder and Jennings did not celebrate.

According to the Peter Jennings documentary "The Killing Fields", Cambodia specifically absorbed 500,000 tons of U.

Jennings has now inserted herself in to the anti-vaccine movement, and is using her own case to 'warn about the dangers of vaccines.'" We need a vaccine to cure ignorance...

I used to turn on the TV in the morning, not the computer (TV was how I learned of the event itself: "what's Peter Jennings doing on TV in the morning?").

In the old days 1994, there was at least some journalistic content on the news with Peter Jennings.

Interesting presentation at Flywheel in Winston Salem NC by CEO, Pamela Jennings.

From The Devouring Fungus, Karla Jennings, 1990, chapter 10, The Monster Turns… and Falls to its Knees, p.