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I haven't even realized that recaptcha was a company.
by Keyframe 17y ago
I haven't even realized that recaptcha was a company.
- henning 17y agoI thought reCAPTCHA was a hip university research project.
- patio11 17y agoThey learned from the Google school of public relations. ("What, make money? Hah, hah, we're just a bunch of geeks who like interesting problems, no crass lucre here, no siree!")
- yan 17y agoWow, googling for 'crass lucre' brought this post up as result #2. Definition please? :)
- tokenadult 17y agoThe definition of "lucre" is monetary reward. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lucre http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lucre The most common phrase that uses the word lucre is "filthy lucre," a reference to money being something that distracts noble people from pursuing altruistic goals.
- arram 17y ago"Vulgar profiteering"
- colinprince 17y agolucre is money, and crass would be one potential view on the acquiring thereof.
- mhartl 17y agoN.B. The official term is "filthy lucre".
- heyitsnick 17y agoYou are now result #1!
- jchonphoenix 17y agoSo reCaptcha's basis is a new field known as Human Computation that Luis invented himself. The term was coined in his Ph.D thesis. Google, however, has been the only company to really embrace Human Computation so it's not really a huge surprise that reCaptcha was sold to Google.
- div 17y agoThat or the fact that hooking up reCaptcha to Google's project Gutenberg would seem to solve some of the problems inherent to it.
- jcl 17y agoThese are the same guys who sold the hip university research project "ESP Game" to Google. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESP_game http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESP_game
- nixme 17y agoAs much as many of us despised him as a teacher, I do admit Luis von Ahn is pretty creative and brilliant at the same time.
- vibhavs 17y agoI second that.
- mad44 17y agoWhy did you despise him as a teacher? Too demanding, too harsh? Or did he not care? Just out of curiosity.
- nixme 17y agoThere are only so many times anyone wants to hear about his MacArthur Genius Award or how both Microsoft and Google fought over recruiting him and how instead he took the high road and decided to stay at CMU. Maybe it was because it was his first time leading 251 and he was out to prove he was worthy.... That said, he was a very good teacher. Great lectures with lots of student involvement. He also had some creative ways of catching cheaters.
- chengas123 17y agoSix years later and I'm still glad to be done with 251. Sorry you missed out on Rudich's magic tricks though.
- cake 17y agoCould you describe some of the "creative ways of catching cheaters" he has ?
- breck 17y agoMe too. i thought it was a non profit for some reason.