Trying to size up these puzzles is like gaping at a homemade contraption that has mysteriously evolved into something even its designers can no longer fathom, let alone operate and dismantle.
In no way did it demonstrate that Deep Blue was doing something even vaguely intelligent.Even so, defeating a grandmaster at chess was child's play compared with challenging a quiz show famous for offering clues laden with ambiguity, irony, wit and double meaning as well as riddles and puns things that humans find tricky enough to fathom, let alone answer.
Most people today can't even fathom (let alone endorse or advocate) a government that's strictly limited to protecting each person's right to life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness.
"My young boy wouldn't be able to fathom let alone undertake such huge and Islamically-forbidden act alone," Amin's father Mohammed Al-Ghamidi told Al-Riyadh newspaper a week after his arrest.
It comes down to this: I can't curb violence, moderate extremists or bring back the innocent lives that were lost for reasons I can't even fathom let alone understand.
Such a humiliating verbal assault on a soldier was hard enough to fathom, let alone the fact that his chain of command concluded that he made the scenario up.
And it may seem like because I have the extra burden of experiencing a disability like FSHD Muscular Dystrophy, it would be a challenge too daunting to fathom, let alone one that could be dealt with as anything of a good thing.
Every year, on the morning of September 11, Mark Rossini wakes up with something on his mind that most Americans could never even fathom, let alone live with: Information once in his possession as a former FBI special agent might have prevented the terrorist attacks that killed 3,000 people 14 years ago today.
Why the post has not been advertised, let alone filled, is hard to fathom.
I've heard of this Association of Southeast Asian Nations ASEANN) going the European Union way story before and thought it was totally crazy for anybody to even fathom that, let alone believe it will reap rewards of any kind.
