That is awesome. I hate captchas. A number of them are really hard to read or take a hell of a long time to load for some reason (like the ones at SEDAR). Counting kittens is something that would be very easy for a human and tricky for a computer program. So, it would work really well for the purpose.
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Or r/mensrights, or any of the uh, Anderson Cooper-esque subreddits, or any subreddit run by ViolentAcrez that the Reddit admins try to cover up when it was revealed that he had sex with his daughter and is a hideous Reddit admin.
How about we just burn down Reddit? (but save the cat pictures)
That is awesome. I hate captchas. A number of them are really hard to read or take a hell of a long time to load for some reason (like the ones at SEDAR). Counting kittens is something that would be very easy for a human and tricky for a computer program. So, it would work really well for the purpose.
Boo! reCAPTCHA is helping digitize books. The internet is over 30 years old and it's just learning how to read!!! Anyone who does't want to help a 30 year old learn to read is a horrible person who would likely be hated by kittens.
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Boo! reCAPTCHA is helping digitize books. The internet is over 30 years old and it's just learning how to read!!! Anyone who does't want to help a 30 year old learn to read is a horrible person who would likely be hated by kittens.
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It's pretty easy to tell which of the two words you see in the recaptcha is the digitized books one... you can enter in whatever you want for that word, as long as you're correct on the other one. So I type 'boobs' for the digitized books one, in the hope that someday it'll result in the word 'boobs' getting inserted into some digitized scholarly manuscript.
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It's pretty easy to tell which of the two words you see in the recaptcha is the digitized books one... you can enter in whatever you want for that word, as long as you're correct on the other one. So I type 'boobs' for the digitized books one, in the hope that someday it'll result in the word 'boobs' getting inserted into some digitized scholarly manuscript.
Wow, I'd never considered that it doesn't actually know what the one word is (since you're doing the OCR for it). Boobs it is.
Wow, I'd never considered that it doesn't actually know what the one word is (since you're doing the OCR for it). Boobs it is.
It's actually a pretty clever idea started by Luis von Anh, that was later purchased by Google to digitized their books. His latest project, which stems from the same idea is Duolingo, a website that teaches people language. Once you get into the higher levels, your answers are used to by Google translate to help better translate documents.
You can give boobs mistranslations a shot, but I'm pretty sure it won't work unless you can convince hundreds of other people to give the same mistranslations...
Captcha Kittens!
