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I've never been able to tell if the following strip is authentic, or if it's a dark reinterpretation: http://www.actsofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Peanuts...

Edit: tvtropes suggests it's real, and it has a pleasant followup, although I'm not sure the followup fully offsets the initial effect.

> good growth potential and those options work out in your favor, which is actually typically the case

Typically the case? I'll wager that greater than 70% of startup employee options never pay out.

Well, it sounds to me like you haven't worked on systems of any complexity. Seven days for a federated auth system that behaves the way people actually want it to behave is very, very low.

Read the article/press release carefully and note the donation of Watson resources to RPI is meant as a testbed for improving its capabilities. Nowhere will you find an explicit demonstration by IBM of Watson doing math. I've actually worked with Watson, the question about math comes up quite often, and people have a lot of great expectations around the general notion of AI and problem-solving, even wondering if Watson can answer philosophical questions. But, today, Watson is not built to solve these kinds of problems.

Watson's core capability is natural language processing--to discern the "what" of an English question, and to match it with germane texts in its corpus.

With regard to proportion of ingredients (e.g., acid vs. oil, salt vs. sugar, regular seasonings), surface area, heat transfer over time, and the like, there is some basic math intrinsic to cooking.

Utter marketing fluff. Watson cannot do simple arithmetic, and by extension certainly does not know how to cook, nor can it learn to understand any cooking technique. I know folks want to expect a lot from Watson but this is simply not realistic.