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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-11 05:47 AM Original message |
I've been helping to decode old books.. and didn't know it.. You probably are too.. |
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bananas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-11 05:53 AM Response to Original message |
1. Whoa! |
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Frank Cannon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-11 05:58 AM Response to Original message |
2. Wait a minute. If the computer doesn't know what the word is... |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-11 06:01 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. They show the same word to more than one person.. |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-11 06:04 AM Response to Reply #4 |
7. Here's the paper (it has grone exponentially from when it started): |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-25-11 11:36 AM Response to Reply #4 |
17. FASCINATING! In theory, this could have profound implications -- |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-11 06:01 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. It's tested against other users' input, not the computer. |
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begin_within (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-11 06:54 AM Response to Reply #2 |
9. I've deliberately misspelled the words a few times and still been let through! |
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Frank Cannon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-25-11 05:33 AM Response to Reply #9 |
15. That's very interesting. I never tried that. |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-11 06:00 AM Response to Original message |
3. This is from 2007. reCAPTCHA is now owned by Google, and does 200+ million CAPTCHA's a day. |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-11 06:02 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. I wasn't aware of it, that was the first article that popped up when I Googled.. |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-11 06:05 AM Response to Reply #6 |
8. No worries, it's cool man, it's a pretty remarkable service. |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-25-11 11:38 AM Response to Reply #3 |
19. Don't be glad. Google is a monopoly and is becoming more of one with their browser etc. |
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eilen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-11 07:01 AM Response to Original message |
10. They should just hire out of work nurses |
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begin_within (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-25-11 10:51 AM Response to Reply #10 |
16. Hats off to you |
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hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-25-11 11:37 AM Response to Reply #10 |
18. ! |
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Celebration (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-11 07:36 AM Response to Original message |
11. must be why some of those are so hard to read |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-11 08:21 AM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Sometimes they are gibberish. |
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HysteryDiagnosis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-11 08:14 AM Response to Original message |
12. They could scan "nuclear" and gw would never ever be able to type it out correctly. n/t |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-24-11 08:16 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Eh, if you gave a million monkeys a million keyboards.. |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-25-11 11:38 AM Response to Reply #13 |
20. One *chimp is enough. n/t |
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FredStembottom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-25-11 11:51 AM Response to Original message |
21. I noticed about a year ago that I was getting real words. |
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