Everytime you fill in CAPTCHA you’re helping to digitalize old books and documents. Using CAPTCHA abt 250 books are added to a digital database everyday
Its called RECAPTCHA! The creator of CAPTCHA (Luis von Ahn) realised a lot of time was being wasted with CAPTCHA (worldwide we spend about 500,000 hours doing CAPTCHA every day)
So he wanted to put it to good use
The reason why CAPTCHA uses wonky letters is because computers can’t read them, but we can!
But when trying to automatically digitalise old books and documents this becomes a hindrance because computers often cant read the faded old letters. So the digitalising is done by humans (very costly and time consuming)
Anyway Ahn found out about these a integraded into captcha creating RECAPTCHA.
Everyday about 150 (sorry i meant 150 not 250) old books get digitalized this way. They are currently using it to digitalize the whole archive of The New York Times (since 1851)
So we’re all kinda building a digital library of alexandria this way by using captcha, noice
reCAPTCHA Founded 2007. Overview reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service
that helps to digitize books, newspapers and old time radio shows.
reCAPTCHA improves the process of digitizing books by sending words that
cannot be read by computers to the Web in the form of CAPTCHAs for
humans to decipher.
In case any of you thought this was BS
I always love seeing reCAPTCHA being used.
That’s a lot more useful than asking how many pictures contain awnings or some shit.
The auxiliary water pump on my car broke (the plastic rotted and cracked so it was spewing coolant everywhere) and the mechanic wanted me to pay $300 for a $150 part.
I went to an auto store and bought the part for just under $150 and was gonna have the mechanic install it until I called them back and they said they don’t install customer parts.
So I figured if they won’t install customer parts, they’ll at least fix existing problems with the vehicle.
So, naturally I poorly installed the new part myself, then took it to the mechanic saying I had coolant issues and wasn’t sure what the problem was. They fixed the problem in under 20 minutes and only charged me $30 for the labor.
Ho l y
Imma try that last one
I went to my doctor’s office and asked if they had any slots open for that day. They told me they don’t take walk-ins, you have to call ahead for an appointment.
So I pulled out my phone and called the office. The other receptionist answered the phone and the first one literally WATCHED ME say “I’d like to make an appointment today if you have any slots available.”
He said to me (on the phone) all they had available was for 9:00, could I make it in time?
I said “Yep, I’m standing right here.”
He didn’t understand what I meant and happily put my appointment down.
I hung up and said to the original receptionist, “Hi, I have an appointment in five minutes.”
She (very angrily) entered me as arrived and gave me my forms.
I finally started watching season 7 of “Buffy” because I finished season 3 of “Angel” and let me just say I am really glad the Gentlemen aren’t in the credits anymore so I won’t freak out at the beginning of every episode.
Omg why did no one tell James Marsters that in a southeast English dialect “can’t” has a long ‘ah,’ not a short ‘a’? They had an actual Englishman in the cast.
There’s a character named Cassie who predicts her own death and no one believes her. Clever.
“You post Doogie Howser fanfiction. Normal, right?”
I recognized two of the actresses who played cheerleaders. One of them plays Clementine on “Westworld” and the other was Sheldon’s fan club on “The Big Bang Theory.”
I was enjoying how Xander and Willow both accidentally drooled over Dawn.
Their 2002-3 clothes are reminding me so hard of what I wore in high school. And in some cases well into college.
“One bite stand”? Really?
I’ve forgotten a bunch of stuff from earlier seasons so now I kind of want to go back and rewatch the whole show.
Oh hey, I thought I recognized one of the potential slayers… it’s Felicia Day! And one of them needs to stop with the fake Southern accent because it’s really bad.
I finally started watching season 7 of “Buffy” because I finished season 3 of “Angel” and let me just say I am really glad the Gentlemen aren’t in the credits anymore so I won’t freak out at the beginning of every episode.
Omg why did no one tell James Marsters that in a southeast English dialect “can’t” has a long ‘ah,’ not a short ‘a’? They had an actual Englishman in the cast.
There’s a character named Cassie who predicts her own death and no one believes her. Clever.
“You post Doogie Howser fanfiction. Normal, right?”
I recognized two of the actresses who played cheerleaders. One of them plays Clementine on “Westworld” and the other was Sheldon’s fan club on “The Big Bang Theory.”
I was enjoying how Xander and Willow both accidentally drooled over Dawn.
Their 2002-3 clothes are reminding me so hard of what I wore in high school. And in some cases well into college.
“One bite stand”? Really?
I’ve forgotten a bunch of stuff from earlier seasons so now I kind of want to go back and rewatch the whole show.
I finally started watching season 7 of “Buffy” because I finished season 3 of “Angel” and let me just say I am really glad the Gentlemen aren’t in the credits anymore so I won’t freak out at the beginning of every episode.
Omg why did no one tell James Marsters that in a southeast English dialect “can’t” has a long ‘ah,’ not a short ‘a’? They had an actual Englishman in the cast.
There’s a character named Cassie who predicts her own death and no one believes her. Clever.
“You post Doogie Howser fanfiction. Normal, right?”
I recognized two of the actresses who played cheerleaders. One of them plays Clementine on “Westworld” and the other was Sheldon’s fan club on “The Big Bang Theory.”
I was enjoying how Xander and Willow both accidentally drooled over Dawn.
Their 2002-3 clothes are reminding me so hard of what I wore in high school. And in some cases well into college.
Loki is the Philosopher King 