Ewrick's Rabbit Hole

I recently found out, through one of the referrers of my website, the Amazon Mechanical Turk website. Never shy of a new expe­rience, I reg­ister to see by myself what it’s all about.

The premise is simple. Some jobs cannot be auto­mated by machines (doesn’t sound too bad to me) and are rel­a­tively simple to be done by humans —and we’re not talking of playing chess (the origin of the “turk” moniker.)

These simple tasks are given to people to be done for a small fee.

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written by Yuki \\ tags: amazon, consciousness, task, turk

The fol­lowing video is quite inter­esting. Although I am not a big fan overall of the string theory which seems to be (to borrow from JP Petit, a French astro­physicist) “science minus the expe­rience, and math­e­matics without the rig­orous approach” it does a good job to present some of the current chal­lenges on our present sci­en­tific under­standing of the uni­verse. Con­tinue reading »

written by Yuki \\ tags: consciousness, maths, science, strings, video