Hang Up and Listen - The Whore of Carnegie Mellon Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2017
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss Duke’s Grayson Allen and other NCAA basketball matters. Scott Raab also joins to talk about his new book You’re Welcome, Cleveland, and Oliver Roeder of FiveThirtyEight explains how a computer program beat four pro poker players.
Grayson Allen and NCAA hoops (2:55): exploring America’s longstanding hatred of white Duke basketball players; Northwestern’s likely maiden visit to March Madness, and the first-ever Ivy League basketball tournament.
Scott Raab’s You’re Welcome, Cleveland (21:37): The writer and Cleveland sports fan explains what he got wrong in The Whore of Akron and whether LeBron James would like his new book.
How a computer took down the poker pros (33:40): Oliver Roeder explains how poker went the way of chess, checkers, Go, and Scrabble, and what the next challenges are for artificial intelligence.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:09.0 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of March 6, 2017. |
| 0:15.5 | On this week's show, we're going to talk about college basketball matters, including Grayson Allen's emergence as the latest Duke |
| 0:22.4 | basketball villain, Northwestern's likely first-ever March Madness appearance, and the impending |
| 0:28.6 | first-ever Ivy League basketball tournament. Scott Rab will join us to discuss Your Welcome, |
| 0:34.0 | Cleveland, how I helped LeBron James win a championship and save a city, |
| 0:38.5 | his self-deprecating LeBron celebrating sequel to the LeBron excoriating, the whore of Akron, |
| 0:45.2 | and Ali Raider of 538 will come on the show for a conversation about Lebratus, |
| 0:50.3 | the poker-playing computer that just beat four pros, |
| 0:53.4 | and how we should feel about the fact that artificial intelligence has now outpaced humankind in every mind sport. |
| 1:00.9 | Joining me in Washington, D.C., a Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak, and a few seconds of panic. |
| 1:06.9 | When did Scrabble get beaten, Stefan? |
| 1:10.4 | Circairc in 1998 was when the computer program really started to have an edge. |
| 1:15.3 | How do you feel about your mind sport being two decades dumber than poker? |
| 1:19.1 | It's later than checkers, though. |
| 1:21.8 | So fuck checkers. |
| 1:23.3 | Lebratus. |
| 1:24.3 | It's the whore of Carnegie Mellon. |
| 1:27.1 | Stefan is somewhere between checkers and poker on the intellectual spectrum. |
| 1:32.3 | A great place to be. |
| 1:33.6 | And with us from New York, it's Mike Pascah, the host of Slate's Daily podcast, The Gist. |
| 1:38.6 | Hey, Mike. |
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