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If Keith and Chemda really wanted to be bullies they would ban Myka from appearing at all because of her involvement with CR. Not allowing her to directly plug the show doesn't seem unreasonable. I don't know if it's effective or a good idea, but it's not unreasonable.
I really like Myka as a guest so I hope she decides to continue appearing on the show.
On another topic, Chemda is partially right when she says the computer, Watson, had an advantage on Jeopardy because it could buzz in quicker, but not like she thinks. On Jeopardy the buzzers are disabled until Trebec finishes reading the clue, which can take several seconds. Watson's advantage was that it almost always got to buzz in first if it thought it knew the answer because it could react to the buzzers being enabled so quickly. But that doesn't mean it can think faster than a human, or better. In practice rounds where the clue was very short (For example if the category was State Capitols and the clues were state names) Watson got creamed because the humans were able to buzz in almost immediately. Also, it still only gets about 80% of the answers correct while high level players like Ken Jennings probably know about 95% of the answers.
So while Watson was able to beat the best human players at Jeopardy, it did so not by being smarter or "thinking" faster, but with mediocre trivia answers and superhuman buzzer reflexes.
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