COLBY 4 LYFE
― go to party leather (ENBB), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
This guy's face. I mean, seriously.
http://i48.tinypic.com/3327xxz.png
― go to party leather (ENBB), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 21:44 (eleven years ago) link
He was so offended when Alex asked if he knew that Colby is a kind of cheese
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 21:48 (eleven years ago) link
I know! It was awesome.
― go to party leather (ENBB), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 22:17 (eleven years ago) link
h8 colby
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 00:49 (eleven years ago) link
he never stops mugging
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 00:50 (eleven years ago) link
otm he has zero self-awareness also
but good for him winning mad bank & hopefully i never have to see him again
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 01:04 (eleven years ago) link
I honestly can't figure out if that look of his is arrogant-smugface or bad-social-skillsface.
― I Don't Wanna Be Dissed (By Anyone But You) (WilliamC), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 01:05 (eleven years ago) link
he's def not cool is the problem
videobombing trebek's signoff today was n/l though can't front
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 27 February 2013 01:17 (eleven years ago) link
COLBY IS MISUNDERSTOOD
― go to party leather (ENBB), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 01:18 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeKJJhp_jJQ
― balls, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 01:54 (eleven years ago) link
just watched several clips, dude's hilarious. can totally believe he's a good teacher.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgSgg0mfi3A
― balls, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 01:57 (eleven years ago) link
I loved Colby. His eyebrows have been the highlight of the last couple of weeks.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 02:22 (eleven years ago) link
Has anyone noticed that nearly all of the women on Jeopardy in the last couple weeks (since I started watching again after like 20 years) are incredibly buxom? What is that? Don't know if this has anything to do with the rumor I heard that AT has been known to make the moves on female contestants!
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 5 April 2013 21:14 (eleven years ago) link
no i havent noticed that
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 6 April 2013 02:52 (eleven years ago) link
didn't mean anything by it, just noticing after watching two weeks straight. also, people seem to win much more than when i last watched!
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 6 April 2013 16:06 (eleven years ago) link
rumor has it that alex trebek is retiring just so that he can spend even MORE of his time hitting on women
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Saturday, 6 April 2013 16:08 (eleven years ago) link
i was p mad that no 1 could pull gore vidal for that final a few days ago
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 6 April 2013 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.businessinsider.com/jeopardys-controversial-new-champion-is-using-game-theory-to-win-big-2014-2
controversy!!
― j., Tuesday, 4 February 2014 23:29 (ten years ago) link
Dumb article and controversy. Tons of people have used the category bouncing strategy before, dating back at least to Chuck Forrest in the 80's, I have no idea why this is just news now. I do agree that it makes the show worse to watch.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 23:33 (ten years ago) link
@arthur_affectChuck Forrest pioneered my jump-around-like-a-lunatic strategy on @Jeopardy -- in 1985, when I was one year old #ForrestBounce
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 23:35 (ten years ago) link
There's tons of recent examples too. This is not uncommon at all.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 23:51 (ten years ago) link
He's a bad boy who can't live by the rules
― 龜, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 01:06 (ten years ago) link
Am I misremembering or didn't Ken Jennings do this as well?
― frogbs, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 01:35 (ten years ago) link
Yes, he did.
― kate78, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 01:38 (ten years ago) link
still pretty awesome imo
― balls, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 02:17 (ten years ago) link
The recent guy who really gamed the system in a cool way (and also bounced around categories hunting for DDs) was Roger Craig: http://www.npr.org/2011/11/20/142569472/how-one-man-played-moneyball-with-jeopardy
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 13:44 (ten years ago) link
*I remove a card from my hand and place it face down on the table. I slowly slide the card forward. In one quick and fluid movement, I flip the card over. It is the Race card.*
In all seriousness, he does represent a sort of convergence of several nerd stereotypes - the nerd, the Asian nerd, the antisocial nerd, the nerd who doesn't care about social mores because he is ultra-'rational', who only does something if he ends up 'better off' than his previous position, who moves upwards on the Coase curve
― 龜, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 13:50 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TT0TH7NV2Q
So I just watched an episode and I don't get it - he's gone for business casual, okay - he is well-spoken (I think the bio mentions that he does voiceovers or is a voiceover editor?) - he doesn't seem any more aggressive than many other players who have appeared on the show
― 龜, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 14:30 (ten years ago) link
I mean as far as I know almost every Jeopardy strategy article advocates this kind of thing so I'm not sure what the story is. Roger Craig's methods were a lot more radical in my opinion, certainly not cheating but overall not dissimilar from the dude who taped every episode of Press Your Luck to find the on-board patterns that would allow him to "go infinite"
― frogbs, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 14:33 (ten years ago) link
Well............ it's probably because he's Asian
― 龜, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 14:41 (ten years ago) link
I gather it's "playing to tie" that's the interesting game theory part.
Explained here: http://youtu.be/hRfXzrTDY-Y
― jmm, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 14:41 (ten years ago) link
lol, would love to hear more of this game theory = antiasian racism hypothesis
― balls, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 14:43 (ten years ago) link
and it's totally dissimilar from press yr luck guy who simply cheated
― balls, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 14:44 (ten years ago) link
yeah I hadn't heard of the "playing to tie" thing before and I guess I don't really understand it
― frogbs, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 14:45 (ten years ago) link
memorizing the board patterns isn't cheating! if it was they wouldn't have paid him.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 14:47 (ten years ago) link
― balls, Wednesday, February 5, 2014 10:43 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark
My tongue was half in my cheek (and look who I was responding to) but
As others have pointed out he's not the first Jeopardy pro-gamer to use game theory in playing
After he's gone viral about half the stories on the first page of a google search are about his 'game theory' techniques, the other half just call him the 'Jeopardy Villain'
― 龜, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 14:48 (ten years ago) link
Oh & looks like this guy went to Swarthmore. Of course
Seems to me that at least half the story here, if not more, is that he is causing the good-natured folks who watch Jeopardy to become upset and it's not their fault. He is at least a social deviant if not worse and the root of his illness must be rooted out and excised
― 龜, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 14:53 (ten years ago) link
suspect there have been people who have applied game theory to non-academic settings and come off as assholes before. maybe google 'wall street' and 'villain'.
― balls, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 14:55 (ten years ago) link
i haven't watched the video that jmm posted above because i'm at work, but i thought that he wagered an amount in the final round that would allow another (weaker) contestant to tie him so that they would both move on to the next game. in the clip i watched, the other player who he allowed to tie him was way behind him in $ before the final round. if that meant that she was clearly the weaker contestant, then he would have an interest in bringing her along to the next game because that would effectively reduce his true competition. it would just be him, the clearly weaker player that he strung along, and a third contestant.
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 14:56 (ten years ago) link
― balls, Wednesday, February 5, 2014 10:55 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
Everybody loves Leo DiCaprio, though. What a loveable asshole
― 龜, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 14:58 (ten years ago) link
Anyway I am rolling back my antiAsian theory after reading that Fox News is on his side http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/02/04/jeopardy-contestant-arthur-chu-defends-controversial-strategy/
the press your luck guy "cheated" the same way card counters "cheat", iirc
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 5 February 2014 14:59 (ten years ago) link
re: the tying strategy - it's not something you could exploit every game, but he clearly seized on the opportunity to improve his chances for the next game. pretty smart, i'd say!
btw, lol at a the large segment of the internet's reaction to this guy that's like "he's not doing anything great, everyone knows this stuff". yeah, clearly if any of US were on jeopardy we'd be busting out the game theory moves left and right
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 14:59 (ten years ago) link
My impression is that if he's allowing someone to tie him then that person may be a threat to beat him though I was missing that he likely had a huge lead when this happened. Sending a message of "I want you to appear on the next show because I think you're below average" does seem rather villainous even if it is brilliant.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 15:01 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/zSHQHdZ.png
Who are these people. I recognize Pierce Brosnan but none of the others
― 龜, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 15:02 (ten years ago) link
those ppl always look alike to me
― balls, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 15:03 (ten years ago) link
so how many episodes has he won so far, 3 or is it 4 now? it seems like a lot of press coverage even if it's his playing style that's getting the attention, are winning streaks of more than a couple days that rare?
― scott c-word (some dude), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 15:04 (ten years ago) link