{"id":3267,"date":"2012-02-18T07:38:15","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T14:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=3267"},"modified":"2012-02-18T07:38:15","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T14:38:15","slug":"cracking-the-jeopardy-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/18\/cracking-the-jeopardy-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Cracking the Jeopardy! Code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months back, Gawker posted about how one uber-geek named Roger Craig (no, not the retired San Francisco 49er) was able to <a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/shareables\/2011\/11\/16\/mind-blown-this-guy-broke-jeopardys-all-time-record-with-an-app\/\">develop a web app that modeled America&#8217;s favorite question and answer show&#8217;s question sequences<\/a> so that he could win an insane amount of money and break their all time record.<br \/>\nCraig delivered this news to the New York &#8220;Quantified Self Show &#038; Tell&#8221; where he explains how he developed a web tool and various supporting programs to analyze and effectively train himself on a database of past questions.  Its a 14 minute talk and its worth watching if you plan to ever be on the show, like I do.<br \/>\nIf you did not know, every year I take the entrance exam hoping \/ praying that <em>this<\/em> is the year I end up on the show.  When I throw out of my many inane pieces of trivia and\/or little known facts, I usually follow it up with the statement, &#8220;One day I&#8217;m going to be on Jeopardy!&#8221; to try to reduce my geek factor.  That being said, my secret fear is that I&#8217;ll get on the show and get destroyed by my lack of opera and classical music knowledge.  Having Mr. Craig&#8217;s app to help me identify my weak spots would be ideal.<br \/>\nAs an aside, one of the best articles I ever read about &#8220;Jeopardy!&#8221; was written for GQ magazine and it was titled &#8220;Why is Alex Trebek laughing at me?&#8221;  It came out in the late 90&#8217;s and I cannot find it online &#8211; I was hoping to link to it in this post.  If you find it, please let me know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months back, Gawker posted about how one uber-geek named Roger Craig (no, not the retired San Francisco 49er) was able to develop a web app that modeled America&#8217;s favorite question and answer show&#8217;s question sequences so that he could win an insane amount of money and break their all time record. Craig delivered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[338,521,660],"class_list":["post-3267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-jeopardy","tag-quiz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}