Everytime you fill in CAPTCHA you’re helping to digitalize old books and documents. Using CAPTCHA abt 250 books are added to a digital database everyday
Its called RECAPTCHA! The creator of CAPTCHA (Luis von Ahn) realised a lot of time was being wasted with CAPTCHA (worldwide we spend about 500,000 hours doing CAPTCHA every day)
So he wanted to put it to good use
The reason why CAPTCHA uses wonky letters is because computers can’t read them, but we can!
But when trying to automatically digitalise old books and documents this becomes a hindrance because computers often cant read the faded old letters. So the digitalising is done by humans (very costly and time consuming)
Anyway Ahn found out about these a integraded into captcha creating RECAPTCHA.
Everyday about 150 (sorry i meant 150 not 250) old books get digitalized this way. They are currently using it to digitalize the whole archive of The New York Times (since 1851)
So we’re all kinda building a digital library of alexandria this way by using captcha, noice
reCAPTCHA Founded 2007. Overview reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service
that helps to digitize books, newspapers and old time radio shows.
reCAPTCHA improves the process of digitizing books by sending words that
cannot be read by computers to the Web in the form of CAPTCHAs for
humans to decipher.
In case any of you thought this was BS
I always love seeing reCAPTCHA being used.
That’s what my dad told me too.
So when we fill out those wonky letters, we are basically helping the computer read weird handwriting.
just tell me straight up and i’ll understand and do my best to be better since all i want to do is improve as a person
and no one can improve if no one communicates their problems
Someone I love and care a lot about held a grudge against me for an entire year before they told me.
It hit me harder than I can possibly describe. Please, just be upfront and honest with me.
This is true about anyone honestly if people don’t honestly tell what’s wrong sometimes people like me or others might never know
this shit has hurt me so much so many times that it’s left me barely able to make friends any more because I’m scared of people not telling me shit
this is important because it can be seriously damaging in the long term, it really causes serious trust issues with people
.FUCKING TELL ME IF SHIT IS WRONG I WILL DO MY BEST TO FIX IT GODAMMIT
ive lost friends because i didnt know anythign was wrong until it was too late and even then i dont know what it was that was wrong. Ive had nightmares about it happening again. Please tell me if i do something wrong so that i can avoid it in the future
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
