http://golancourses.net/2010spring/01/13/caryn-looking-outwards-0/ Carnegie Mellon University / Spring 2010 Mon, 10 May 2010 03:41:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.3 http://golancourses.net/2010spring/01/13/caryn-looking-outwards-0/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:36:16 +0000 http://golancourses.net/2010spring/?p=1332#comment-6 Very cool. Very much in the spirit of <a href="http://www.cylab.cmu.edu/education/faculty/vonahn-luis.html"Luis von Ahn’s approach to solving large-scale problems (reCaptcha, the image labeling game, the like). I’m a little surprised there aren’t more efforts to really create an economy around this sort of thing though (like Mechanical Turk, but more in the spirit of gambling/fine-tuning existing answers to find even better answers…) Like, there have been some economics/market based projects (like the one that pays people to predict terrorist attacks), but none that have the same element of “fun” of a game like, say, poker.

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