Is it jive, turkey?
posted by Dave @ 9:14 PM
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I can't believe I just stumbled across this instead of finding it on a million blogs or discussion lists: Amazon Mechanical Turk.
The idea is amazing ... you write a computer program that does something hard for a computer to do, but easy for a human to do, like figure out if a photograph contains a person.
When you run the program and come to the "figure out the hard part" bit of the program, an actual human figures out the hard part and puts the answer in the computer.
This is so "evil genius" that I'm just mad I didn't think of it first.
If it isn't just a joke, this is bigger than any "innovation" from Google I've ever seen ... almost makes me sad I blew off Amazon midway through the interview process (although not really).
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You blew off Amazon halfway through the interview process? Do tell...
Actually, more than halfway. I just got a bad vibe from the scheduling mishaps, mostly, although I also didn't think the specific job was that interesting. It took several months and a few aggressive calls on my part to even get into a loop, but I got there and I did well. They called and said they wanted me to come in a second time to interview with their VP. I said OK, but they never set up a time. Then I got a phone call, "You were supposed to be here 30 minutes ago, where are you?" Well ... no one had told me! Oopsie! So they rescheduled, but it was far enough out that by the time it was to come up, I'd had enough time to a) decide that I didn't want to put up with this process any more and b) I had found a new job at MS that I loved.
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