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Why not just do a SETI@HOME style thing where you get a slice of a newspaper article, a human being types it up, each is compared to one or two other people typ
by analognoise 6y ago
Why not just do a SETI@HOME style thing where you get a slice of a newspaper article, a human being types it up, each is compared to one or two other people typing the same thing up, when they all match that piece is done and you move on.
I guess that would take a tremendous amount of time, but it would be really cool to get an old newspaper article to look at, and I bet a lot of people would find interesting things to talk about.
You could have a "comment thread" for people who added the piece, kind of like adding a digital layer to history.
- henriquemaia 6y agoI love this idea. What I hate about captchas is not the challenge, but the purpose. However, part of me liked the having to find out what was written on the image. So I would gladly do that on my spare time for a communal project like this. Besides, as you said, reading the old paper would be enough of a prize in itself.
- pbhjpbhj 6y agoCaptchas original purpose was transcribing books, no. And then Google used their version for doing house numbers. (I've a feeling there was some other common type I saw, but can't recall). Now, they're used to train vehicle AIs and map road features in USA. Less happy about the latest one but the book transcription and map correction were good as I benefited from both those projects (used the tools).
- duskwuff 6y agoThat sounds exactly like the Distributed Proofreaders project, which is part of Project Gutenberg: https://www.pgdp.net/c/ https://www.pgdp.net/c/
- analognoise 6y ago...I love HN. Thank you for pointing me to this.