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A masterclass in crowdsourcing, w/Duolingo's Luis von Ahn

Masters of Scale

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Can Human Brain Power Help Digitize Old Books?

Louise started looking around for problems that could be solved with ten seconds of human brain power. For older books, things that werewriten before 19 80, the computer could not recognize about 25 to 30 % of the words. Louis called this new version recapture. And it was about this time that a lot web sides asked to use it.

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