http://seanmcb.com/2005/11/08/human-intelligence-validation I'm a junior at a brand new engineering college. I blog about my life, web stuff, software, technology, and pretty much anything else that strikes my fancy. Thu, 09 Apr 2009 06:59:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 http://seanmcb.com/2005/11/08/human-intelligence-validation#comment-31 Wed, 09 Nov 2005 00:24:46 +0000 http://seanmcb.com/2005/11/08/human-intelligence-validation#comment-31 Sean, I can just see the wheels in your head spinning on that one, and the rest of the family is all scratching their heads saying, "duh I don't get it!" and so I will tell you the standard family line, "Wow Sean, I don't really know what you are talking about, but it sounds like a great idea!" Ha Ha!!! Sean,
I can just see the wheels in your head spinning on that one, and the rest of the family is all scratching their heads saying, “duh I don’t get it!” and so I will tell you the standard family line, “Wow Sean, I don’t really know what you are talking about, but it sounds like a great idea!” Ha Ha!!!

]]> http://seanmcb.com/2005/11/08/human-intelligence-validation#comment-30 Tue, 08 Nov 2005 18:59:53 +0000 http://seanmcb.com/2005/11/08/human-intelligence-validation#comment-30 Yeah, I suppose you'd have to make it wait until the system got confirmation of a "good answer" from the submitter of the human intelligence task. So it would be slower, but still kinda cool. Yeah, I suppose you’d have to make it wait until the system got confirmation of a “good answer” from the submitter of the human intelligence task. So it would be slower, but still kinda cool.

]]> http://seanmcb.com/2005/11/08/human-intelligence-validation#comment-29 Tue, 08 Nov 2005 09:53:22 +0000 http://seanmcb.com/2005/11/08/human-intelligence-validation#comment-29 Well, with a captcha, the computer already knows which is the correct answer. With Mechanical Turk, the problem is that the computer doesn't know the correct answer, which means as an authentication system it doesn't hold any water. Plus, you'd get a ton of bots submitting false data. Well, with a captcha, the computer already knows which is the correct answer. With Mechanical Turk, the problem is that the computer doesn’t know the correct answer, which means as an authentication system it doesn’t hold any water. Plus, you’d get a ton of bots submitting false data.

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