Blogs about: Mechanical Turk
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Happy Birthday Mechanical Turk
I missed it but others didn’t. Mechanical Turk celebrated it’s first birthday on 2nd November. Happy Birthday Mechanical Turk! … more »
Crowdsource
Artificial artificial intelligence and anti-spam
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Mike Speiser wrote 1 week ago: I’m sick and tired of spam and even more ticked off about false positives. Machine learning … more »
Silly Questions
jnachod wrote 1 month ago: Amazon Mechanical Turk is a way to waste small amounts of free time on the Internet doing research a … more »
Find out if you're trustworthy
socialcapital wrote 2 months ago: A new website called Facestat, enables you for free to upload a picture of yourself and have random … more »
Face Stat helps you choose the best photo
welovefresh wrote 2 months ago: Having trouble choosing the right profile picture for your social networks? FaceStat is giving you t … more »
The Trivial Example of Stupefication
stephenfoster wrote 2 months ago: When we stupefy a task, we construct another task or series of tasks, the sum of which require less … more »
Ten Thousand Cents and the Normalizing Power of Crowds
Peter Organisciak wrote 2 months ago: Back in January, when I demonstrated the Mechanical Turk to my Crowdsourcing students, I would show … more »
Mechanical Turk and 12,000 drawings of sheep facing left
brontoari wrote 2 months ago: by Katharine Mieszkowski *** Curtis Taylor, 50, a corporate trainer in Clarksville, Ind., who has ea … more »
Example of cyberspace overtaking labor laws
brontoari wrote 2 months ago: by Katharine Mieszkowski *** The real human ingenuity of Mechanical Turk shines in the novel ways th … more »
Amazon Gives You Answers. Now.
Josh Kutticherry wrote 3 months ago: Amazon recently unveiled a new “Web” service, called NowNow, that allows users to find … more »
Amazon Mechanical Turk
range wrote 3 months ago: The Amazon Mechanical Turk is a crowdsourcing marketplace. (wiki) … more »
Updates on my money making scheme
kitten2friends wrote 5 months ago: First of all my scheme is a sloppy one, because I don’t really have a strategy on increasing m … more »
Mechanical Turk: Steve Fossett
Gerald Buckley wrote 10 months ago: Help if you can please? Thanks! As emailed from Amazon Mechanical Turk yesterday: On Monday, Septemb … more »
Help find missing pilot Steve Fossett
melissa wrote 10 months ago: I received the following email from Amazon/Mechanical Turk earlier today. Thanks to a generous frien … more »
Article on Jim Gray
Peter Organisciak wrote 11 months ago: As a follow-up to my short profile on the Mechanical Turk, Wired has published a story about Jim Gra … more »
The Cons of the Turk: Virtual Sweatshopping
Peter Organisciak wrote 11 months ago: A recurring criticism of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is that it is misused as a virtual sweatsho … more »
Mechanical Turk customer service email address
Rob Webb wrote 11 months ago: I wasted about an hour of my life today trying to find an email address for customer service at Amaz … more »
Amazon creates a human machine with Mechanical Turk
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Peter Organisciak wrote 11 months ago: Earlier this year, Turing Award -winning computer scientist Jim Gray set out on a short sailing tri … more »
Human Computation, Game Design, and Behavioral Economics
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Rob Webb wrote 1 year ago: The philosophies generally associated with the University of Chicago usually orbit around free marke … more »
Mechanical Turk: Review
Gerald Buckley wrote 1 year ago: Well, as promised, for giggles I picked a HIT from The Mechanical Turk and performed the work and go … more »
