and once again, we're very sorry, wikipedia. would you please unlock our pages? [laughter] see you next week. goodnight! [applause] >> from company dee central's world news headquarters in new york, this is the daily show with jon stewart. (cheers and applause) captioning sponsored by comedy central >> jon: welcome to the daily show, my name is jon stewart. we've got a show for you tonight. going to break the bank. my guest tonight, right here on this stage, should i say a certain boss from new jersey? (cheers and applause) not that one. governor chris christie. huh? he's the boss. (applause) the other boss. folks, we've been so wrapped up here in this country with our election, our fiscal cliff, our inattention to events in egypt and syria that we forget there are important international stories that deserve our focus. and then there's this one. >> yes, exciting the british royalty is expanding am will and kate with preggers. >> see that, it's a royal baby bump, what a joy to be here on this day of celebration. >> there's the picture on the times, we're expectin

first we will have julie who is a veteran and student right now and currently an intern at wikipedia if i am not mistaken so julie come on up here. [applause] >> hi. thanks for having me. i am really nervous. anyway tech sf -- wow, i see this project as a answer to our prayers because i share the worries of a lot of students regarding internships and permanent employment opportunities, so thank you for this program. the office of economic and work force development and mayor and dr. momordi and the computer head of engineering at sf state. well i guess i am here today to tell you a story -- well, i will tell you one about opportunities . with blessing and disguise i see opportunities in different forms. several years ago i hit a roadblock in my life and i saw the military as an opportunity to change my life and change the life of others, so i signed up to be a soldier in the army, and i did this quick fast and in a hurry so i don't have time to change my mind. it's a nerve wracking experience, but one that do i not regretd, so when i signed up i was shipped out in three weeks. i was

the third first appeare appearea wikipedia entry a year ago. from being founder of the paper, the man's name is the same as a self-described beach bum from california whose only edit was on that page. the error was spotted and scrubbed by wikipedia a few weeks ago, but not in time to spare the judge's error. >>> as we told you earlier, president obama is rejecting a counter offer from the house republicans to get the country off the fiscal cliff. so the stalemate continues. what happens if we wake up january 2 and it's fallen off the fiscal cliff? here is jim angle. >> today's counter offer made clear the republicans want to avoid going over the fiscal cliff. which some democrats speculated might happen to their benefit. >> this is the way the white house and many democratic members and leadership believe. we will go over the cliff. tall tax rates will go up. we will then enact tax cuts for 98%. we will get congratulations from the american people. >> keeping and adding back tax cut for those above $250,000, 9 #% of income would add $37 trillio

we are the wikipedia to the guinness book of world records, insee cloe pea ya britainic ka. there are probably a lot of opportunities around. he has this idea, he came up with it at burning man but then he immediately figured out how to montize it. how important is that? >> it is everything. great ideas are a dime a dozen. to take an idea from making it profitable and then sustainable as a long-term business, that's what everybody hopes for, right? >> i think everybody is looking for media or their 50 seconds of fame. i think companies. i was thinking as we were watching, how could we set a world record and get. we certainly pay for media. i think it is a very montizable model. >> the reason i say, how important is that, when the obvious question should be, incredibly important. so many companies in silicon valley get bought for lots of money and haven't figured out how to monetize their product yet. this seems to do a little bit of both, a way to get a lot of people, a lot of followers and they have already found the path towards revenue, which i think is really fantastic.

. >> ofourse not if you want to look up cronyism, and wikipedia, this is cronyism in live television.t's blatant. if she feels so blatant she can feel it this way, who are the people not on mv saying texts and messages, dear mr. president, if we bring home the bacon you'll bring home the bacon to us? this is an unfortunate exmple of the realities of this type of political process. >> brenda: well, jonas, didn't michigan, didn't detroit already get a bailout. >> yes, it was called the auto bailout. and before the election, unformer. two admistrations that d that. everyone wants a bailout and the president's going to get your votes one way or the other. question is coming up more broadly, right now new jersey and an other of states getting a huge one bause it was a cast catastrophe. >> and if it's beyond your control and-- >> the case is we ved for you, we get bailout. >> and on the other side, detroit is in a mui-decade collapse that is beyond the scope, it's almt like a hurricane. and i'm not saying it's totally iane for nem to get a disproportionate amount-- >> gary b, you live in ma

watson was educated by wikipedia and several other encyclopedias. and its education took weeks, not years. but it's operating thousands times faster than humans. but we are going to have to educate it. it's going to have to have goals. our goals are set by our own brain which provides our fears and our motivations. but the neocortex sublimates them. writing a poem, for example. >> so what about the body? they were a lot of our intelligence, many people think our rises from our physical interactions with our environment and our opinions can be swayed by, say, the temperature of the cup that i'm holding. how do you come is there a way to model that? if the computer intelligence don't have. >> guest: they have to have some way of interacting with the environment. you're right, the bulk of our environment has been devoted to meeting the needs and desires of our physical body, and it's actually, we have the luxury of spending much time at levels that are removed directly from that. most of our, up until recently in human history was really devoted to peo

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schmidt, and i could not find anywhere in wikipedia or elsewhere online what his middle name is. but if another one of his obvious is cutting and splitting wood. in addition, gary d. schmidt is author of the newberry honor and -- the newbery honor winning the wednesday awards and okay for now, a national book award finalists in 2011, and it gives me great pleasure to introduce gary d. schmidt. ♪ >> good evening. over these last few months i've had the privilege of being the chair of the committee organized to choose national book awards for young peoples literature. in these months we read something over 325 books for young readers ranging from fiction books for the very young reader to paranormal books for the young adult. lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of paranormal books for young adults. [laughter] it was a remarkable journey, and along the way we found books that shook us, that filled us with joy and gladness, that summoned us to courage and to wonder, that use of language in a astounding ways that surprise us of what narrative could do. or to put in the w

i would find it in wikipedia. we stumbled into the sf data website and started looking. it was unbelievable, actually. so, some of the data sets we really needed were already there in very, very good format. and random things that i would never think of like movie set locations in the city of san francisco or every piece of civic art that was there, just really interesting things all with, you know, latitude-longitude, tags and information about them. it was really interesting. and then in my first meeting, in our first meeting with the innovation group, the city i heard of 10 other things that i clearly should have been using and didn't even know existed, literally within the first 15 minutes of the meeting. ss things like street safety, sidewalk safety scores and quality scores so we could wrap people around places. * route people around places. really unbelievable. we availed ourselves of resources going forward. we had the same -- like any data set, you find great things about it. then there's missing values or is thisxtion that got auto populated. we fixed a lot of

on the teleprompter is this part of the show but yes i did i'm just checking ok so according to wikipedia boxing day is traditionally the day following christmas day when servants and tradesmen would receive gifts from their superiors or employers known as a christmas box this year the elite have given the peasants forty five bed banker apple but not a single rico case in the city's boxing day fraud box but the elite hank paulson hank give me seven hundred billion of the market gets it paulson says boy oh boy we're seeing what he's handing out to the people of chicago this is your exactly max hank paulson you know moved to chicago he's back in chicago and i know it is boxing day the day that traditionally the elites go around the city and give all the minions the peasants you know presents and here i think this could be him woman attacked in chicago by a man with a sock full of human crap the woman who is a twenty year old woman she said he had a sock full of his poop on me it was everywhere on my face my hair my clothes. hank paulson in chicago he's filling in stocks which are probably b

i was experiencing what i later learned on wikipedia was the phenomenon known as shock. and we know as a community that when the next disaster hits us, not if, but when, our community will go into shock. in fact, we market this in our local efforts as the 72 hours. the 72 hours that hits any community, when we know that disaster responders are still getting together their infrastructure. and what i want all of you to tell us is what are those best practices that you have been studying and you have been talking about that can help us not just in that first hour, but in that first 72 hours, what is it that i need to be educating our community on during that time period? the second thing i want to ask you is, how our military can better work with our first responders and our civilians. again, not just in that 72 hours, but in the weeks and the months ahead. i participate in many drills with our civilians, with our volunteers and our police and fire departments and our department of emergency management in how to be prepared. but obviously because of the work that the milita

his own wikipedia page.doing virtually everything possible including gaining entry into a homeless shelter. >> we explained his story with the article and even a clip from dr. phil but still no luck. >> "finding benjamin" was shown this year at the tribeca film festival. >> i'm going to tell you my story because this is my future my sos, my message in the bottle. >>> with us are filmmaker john wixom and benjamin kyle. good morning to both of you. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> this is an incredible story, john. and you stumbled onto it on the internet. you thought it was going to be a quirky story you would tell initially but you changed your focus. why? >> well, originally the -- i found benjamin's wikipedia article online and i was looking for an approach to a documentary and i thought, this is an interesting story, this is something quirky. originally it was going to be something kind of funny, kind of look at this guy. but, you know as soon as we started filming and getting to know benjamin i

it actually read wikipedia and other encyclopedias. 200 million pages of natural language documents. it actually does not do as good a job as you would do reading a page person you could read one page and say it's a 97% chance barack obama as president if he didn't know anything about them watson road reducing page and say there's a 56% chance barack obama's president. he did not do as good a job, but it's been 200 million pages, maybe 100,000 of those -- >> host: this is a computer that beat a human in jeopardy, right? >> guest: so within three seconds they can access all of the knowledge in this 200 million pages at its level of understanding even though that level is below tyumen, the scale is far beyond the human. you and i can't read 200 million pages and remember it all. we'd never get through it. that level of understanding will gradually get better and better. my contentions of human intelligence will then be able to read lancet pages. lots being adopted to read medical general articles of blogs and be a medical diagnostician consulting system. the doctors can't read everythi

>> i've done as much as read the wikipedia on snus. what little i know is, it's better for you than smoking by quite a bit. >> dr. karl fagerstrom agrees that snus, which originated here in his home country of sweden, is nowhere near as harmful as cigarettes. he's a nicotine addiction scientist who was awarded a medal from the world health organization for his work on medications to help smokers quit. so you've been working with people who wanted to quit and just couldn't for years. >> for many, it's so difficult that they will never be able to give up during their whole life. >> even with the patch... >> even with the patch and all the combinations, et cetera. i mean, there are people that don't invest in the future. they don't even invest in tomorrow. they live for today. >> let's talk about some of the aids that have been around to help people quit, because a lot of people fail with those. >> mm-hmm. >> do you think that's because the nicotine level isn't very high? >> partly. there are some studies from sweden, and it seems that no

the wikipedia integrators, the book will never die series everyone stakes out these extreme positions. i can tell you from this vantage point about a billion dollars a year medical textbooks, college textbooks, highly specialized academic research. you know, it's just a messy time right now. one of the ways in which we are struggling to figure out how to fulfill our mission. while sustaining the assets of all of these dissemination models. a lot of these have to do with hardware. that's kind of what i mean. finally to close on an encouraging note. i really think that there has never been a better time for books. i can't remember when the room like this has more people in it when you have a conversation like this. because people really do care about books. people have a deeply autobiographical relationship to books. and i think that given that we live and breathe books come about, not votes pretty well for us. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, niko pfund. thank you for keeping the standards so high. indeed, there are wonderful books in published today. there seems to be no shortage o

as with the wikipedia entry, you are free to leap from one texan lead to another, as if you have chosen to jump fences and get distracted by other boxes and so you don't know where you really are. i am happy enough for an electronic text to be part of my world. but i do wish they wouldn't come into it with such aggressive self exertion. electronic books seem to be terribly certain about the inevitability of their dominance. i have even encountered librarians who seemed almost giddy about the postprint air that seems to be dying. when i was with the national humanities for a while, i attended the arl in philadelphia, and i was astonished with how some of the other speakers talked with glee about the number of duplicate copies of printed books that they had been able to confine to some off-site limbo or complete oblivion now, i know they are under pressure to free up space in their libraries in order to accommodate all sorts of new electronic equipment and activity but when they talked about those duplicate print copies, you would've thought that they were engaged in asbestos removal i tu