So you know those Captcha programs? Those almost-impossible-to-read words/letters/symbols that you have to type in to prove you're not a robot?
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You know, this guy |
Did you know the program reCaptcha is taking that annoyingness and making some good come out of it? Cos when you type in the words there, you're helping to translate old documents and newspapers onto computers who can't read the old text that's all slanty and smudged.
Believe it or not, people ARE smarter than computers. I mean, most of them anyway. So the website makes sure you're not a robot and you get to help digitize a bunch of books. HOW COOL IS THAT?
...Don't worry, I'll have a review post up soon. Native Son and The Kings and Queens of Roam are both on my radar.
*Internet time. Real world it was 2 years ago
readingrambo 112p · 604 weeks ago
This makes those hundreds of times I voted in that Once Upon a Time poll so much more meaningful.
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1. You proving you're not a robot by answering correctly. Which would mean the system would need to know the answer. But the system doesn't know the answer, which is why they need us. I think the way it works is one word is the one the computer knows and the other is the smudged one you're filling in. You just have to answer 1 right to prove you're people.
2. What happens if you get the smudged word wrong? I wonder if a word has to be answered the same way by a certain number of people before the system counts it as a right answer.
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