User talk:Poke

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[edit] That, is amazing

Misery 16:57, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

The world hates you -- Brains12 \ talk 17:20, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

double lol! poke | talk 17:25, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

It really.. really does.. Misery 20:00, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

That is amazing :P - anja 22:02, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

I finally found out what the reCaptcha project is all about and I find THAT totally amazing! -- Wyn talk 22:14, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Interesting, but wait, if they are using this project to perfect OCR, couldn't OCR then be used by bots to defeat CAPTCHAs? (Satanael 22:28, 1 July 2009 (UTC))

They aren't. The project is an alternative to OCR, where OCR fails. (Aiiane - talk - contribs) 22:49, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

OK, but either way, couldn't what they develop be used to allow bots to defeat CAPTCHAs? (Satanael 07:57, 2 July 2009 (UTC))

It's not so much being used to perfect OCR, it's being used to actually translate the words that OCR fails to translate, and allowing the continued translation of older documents like the entire archive of the New York Times. I think it's totally amazing. I actually found out about it watching PBS yesterday. I don't remember which show it was, but they were talking to the guy that actually created Captcha and reCaptcha. He's also involved in some of the digitalization projects that are putting these volumes on the internet. -- Wyn talk 08:29, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

They're not "developing" anything, what they have is already developed. Specifically, they have humans look at text and recognize it. Quoted from the site: "Each new word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is given to a user in conjunction with another word for which the answer is already known. The user is then asked to read both words. If they solve the one for which the answer is known, the system assumes their answer is correct for the new one. The system then gives the new image to a number of other people to determine, with higher confidence, whether the original answer was correct." The only software involved is the distribution of images and the collection of user input. All of the actual recognition is done by the human answering the CAPTCHA. (Aiiane - talk - contribs) 09:38, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

I actually think it's beautiful. It's kind of like a kind of distributed computing using human brains. Most people are probably contributing without even knowing. It's like a sneaky folding-at-home thing. I hope that creeps someone out. Misery 09:41, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

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Definitely not vandalism except for the people who are like, "first post", "shut up". If you were logged into GW you would know ;) 75.74.169.102 21:18, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

I am logged in into Guild Wars, I know what the update did, I know what the anons wrote. However all that was on the update page was vandalism. poke | talk 21:20, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

But are you logged into a town? (I thought I'd use italics since we're getting smart now.) 75.74.169.102 21:22, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Yes, I am; I already stand on the nine rings :P poke | talk 21:23, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

So it does turn out that the update was more than just merely making the 2009 festival live. All I wanted to do was contribute, by first, making the page. Thanks for ripping away my contribution. Don't even think about running in the next bureaucrat election. 75.74.169.102 22:41, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

lol, what? The point in creating pages is to put content on it. Your contributions contained no content, a simple note that the is nothing to read is not content and will just confuse people. We generally try to only put up texts written by ArenaNet only (except for the additional GWW notes), so having such a text without any information in it does nothing except creating a page (instead of leaving it as non-existing and therefor content-less - which is it anyway) and getting attention of people for nothing.

The information that there was an update in the first place is quite easily received by logging into the game instead. poke | talk 22:57, 3 July 2009 (UTC)