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04.27.07

do better than me, get a job! Internet, jobs, utilities | Comments
Yes, now Daily Iteration, your very own newest favorite blog, has its own jobs site! Check out Daily Jobs, just launched! This service was created with Job-a-matic, a great little web service from Simply Hired, so all the technical and commercial side of things is handled by them, a very reputed recruiting company. All I do is give them an audience, and collect my percentage... So if you're technically minded and out looking for a job, or perhaps you work regularly as a freelancer, check back often at Daily Jobs, it's very likely you will find something over there. Or, ...
04.26.07

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk: clever solution or new-age sweatshop? Internet | Comments
Yesterday I took a closer look at Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk. This is a service where developers can request tasks to be carried out by humans, and get the result in what looks like a common RPC, so one can plug it straight into your code. Sounds a little unclear, right? Let me quote from their FAQ: Amazon Mechanical Turk provides a web services API for computers to integrate "artificial artificial intelligence" directly into their processing by making requests of humans. Developers use the Amazon Mechanical Turk web service to submit tasks to the Amazon Mechanical Turk web site, ...

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