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Re:Watson crushes the competition in second round of 'Jeopardy' by cperciva on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @01:08AM (#2225286)
How to make the buzzers fair: If two people buzz in within time T of the question being read, randomly select who gets to answer. The value of T would be somewhere on the order of 200 ms, to distinguish between the two cases of "waiting until the question is finished before buzzing in" and "racing to figure out the answer the fastest".
Re:Watson crushes the competition in second round of 'Jeopardy' by baddox on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @01:17AM (#2225322)
It would probably be better to just linearly go through who gets to answer.
Re:Watson crushes the competition in second round of 'Jeopardy' by ugh on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @03:34AM (#2225679)
That wouldn’t be Jeopardy anymore. Timing matters. I like the 200ms solution.