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Banking on one another: Can the crowd save itself from the banks?
January 26, 2012 Share First they lend too much, cause a financial meltdown and need bailing out. Now they don’t lend enough (unless share-options and fat bonuses count as lending). As any former Wall St inhabitant, election-year politician or self-respecting Hollywood celebrity will tell you: banks are pure evil.
Personally, I quite like the banking system as a whole. Swiping a little …
Better shred than read: DARPA uses competitive crowdsourcing to revive destroyed documents
January 12, 2012… They spent 600 man-hours spent building the algorithms which made suggestions of shreds that might fit together.
Suspicious finds
DARPA claims they came up with the Shredder Challenge for soldiers to use in the battlefield (presumably for when they find that bunker full of shredded MapQuest directions to the W.M.Ds) and also uncover potential vulnerabilities in U.S. Government document disposal practices. Conspiracy theorists will surely claim it’s only a matter of time before the …
Faces in the crowd: how crowdsourcing can help people fit into society
November 30, 2011 Share Sometimes it seems there’s a lot of negativity towards the crowd. Whether it’s images of angry mobs with burning torches or hurtful terms like “mob mentality” and “tyranny of the majority”, our society often seems to favor the individual over the group.
We in the crowdsourcing industry have been working hard to dispel these myths and improve the image of the …
Hatforce: your friendly crowd of hackers
November 17, 2011 Share Hackers: ruthless cyber-villains out to steal and defraud, or virtual heroes fearlessly battling the security systems of evil corporations ? Love them or hate them, hackers have always been around. They’re an inevitable online hazard – like trolls, 404 pages and inappropriate Nazi analogies .
Take the international “hactivism” group Anonymous (these guys …
Kaggle: crowdsourcing genius or statistical anomaly?
November 14, 2011 Share In 2009 Hal Varian , Google’s chief economist, famously claimed that “the sexy job in the next ten years will be statistician” . It still sounds pretty improbable right?
I mean, when did you last see a data-analyst fighting off screaming groupies? Statistics isn’t even a cool branch of maths.
Real “pure” mathematicians wrestle with the fundamental …
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