Panos

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by Panos 14y ago
Perhaps a treemap?
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The oDesk Flower: Playing with Visualizations(behind-the-enemy-lines.com)
4 points by Panos 14y ago|0 comments
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by Panos 14y ago
Mathjax :-)
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by Panos 14y ago
That was exactly what I was thinking after reflecting on this issue...
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by Panos 14y ago
Amazon was genuinely nice in this case. I had no expectation that they would refund the charges. It was a self-inflicted wound and Amazon had no obligation to pay for my own stupidity.
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by Panos 14y ago
Yes, that would solve the issue of not being able to have your own robots.txt file and I did not know about that. On the other hand, Feedfetcher would still ignore the robots.txt
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by Panos 14y ago
Which will be ignored by Feedfetcher :-) Plus you cannot put a robots.txt at s3.amazonaws.com so if the url is accessed through the https://s3.amazonaws.com/... . url, the robots.txt will not work.
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How I attacked myself using Google and I ramped up a $1000 bandwidth bill(behind-the-enemy-lines.com)
775 points by Panos 14y ago|142 comments
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by Panos 15y ago
Well, we are. Kind of :-) http://www.amazon.com/Race-Against-The-Machine-ebook/dp/B005... There are many software applications today that are being seamlessly powered by a combination of human and machine intelligence. For example, Google
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by Panos 15y ago
And now we know how the Philippinos that work overnight are being fed.
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by Panos 15y ago
Sorry, my fault both for not creating the graph properly, and for not giving the data. Both fixed now.
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Philippines: The country that never sleeps(behind-the-enemy-lines.com)
53 points by Panos 15y ago|20 comments
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50% of the online ads are never seen(behind-the-enemy-lines.com)
9 points by Panos 15y ago|1 comments
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Crowdsourcing and the end of job interviews(behind-the-enemy-lines.com)
7 points by Panos 15y ago|2 comments
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The Need for Standardization in Crowdsourcing(behind-the-enemy-lines.com)
12 points by Panos 15y ago|1 comments
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by Panos 15y ago
On a very selfish note, take a look at these: http://qmturk.appspot.com/ http://code.google.com/p/get-another-label/ You may find the code useful for what you are trying to do.
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by Panos 15y ago
Thanks for the offer. I have a decently long experience with MTurk to know how to get things done. My point is that microtask work is not necessarily the optimal setting for tasks that are expected to last for longer periods of time. It is
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High-wage skills, or why you might want to learn Clojure if you're not a lawyer(onlinelabor.blogspot.com)
82 points by Panos 15y ago|62 comments
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by Panos 15y ago
All my work on Mechanical Turk is to feed the data into a machine learning process that automates the task. Some tasks are easy to automate (any classification task), some others are harder (anything related to content generation, or vision
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by Panos 15y ago
Let me suggest one solution for such cases: Use iterative tasks, in the spirit introduced by TurkIt. For example, you want to create a caption for an image. You let a user create a caption. Then you take this caption and give it to another
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Mechanical Turk vs oDesk(behind-the-enemy-lines.com)
51 points by Panos 15y ago|16 comments
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by Panos 15y ago
Yes, in retrospect, we can easily agree that you are correct. I will just give here the answer that I posted in another thread http://hackerne.ws/item?id=2797371 the post was supposed to be "a story with the twist." Had I known that I wa
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by Panos 15y ago
Yes, I believe that there is a 1%-2% of blatant cheater everywhere, and a significantly bigger percentage of students that take liberties with their homework assignments. (Asking people for help, looking at solutions, collaborating in indiv
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by Panos 15y ago
The student admitted that the whole email was total BS. I took excerpts of the email and posted them here, not the full message. Come on, could you really believe that this email contained a single element of truth?
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by Panos 15y ago
Yes, indeed, the post was supposed to be "a story with the twist." Had I known that I was going to have hundreds of thousands of people reading the post, I would have followed the standard journalistic practice of writing a summary at the v
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by Panos 15y ago
Thank you for a constructive disagreement. Perhaps car theft and bicycle theft would have been a better analogy, when talking about the offence (but I could not find a good analogy for the underlying problem). "In practice, there were appar
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by Panos 15y ago
Well, there was a point in that analogy. In the past, I was catching cheaters who put no effort in the assignment. This time, I had a zero-tolerance policy. No matter if you plagiarized the whole assignment or a paragraph, no matter if you
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by Panos 15y ago
I did this lecture in class. I had to do a quick Google search that day and I found two cases of plagiarism in the news. * ArsTechnica, Oct 8, 2010, Copied pleadings show there's no honor among antipiracy lawyers http://arstechnica.com/
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by Panos 15y ago
If you attribute the 20% rate to NYU, and not to my increased vigilance, then you may want to read again the latest blog post.
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by Panos 15y ago
[and the reply that I also posted on my blog :-)] What you describe was my policy in all prior years. I just stupidly felt last year that I need to hunt further. Nope. Big mistake. Just FYI, I could always locate 1-2 cases of cheating in ev

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