Michael Mitzenmacher has a great post this morning on a humorous attempt to outsource the undecidable halting problem to GetACoder.com, complete with advice from Georg Cantor.
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Twitter Feed- RT @wsdm2012: Kudos to the Grand Hyatt Seattle for providing #WSDM2012 with reliable internet. We normally manage to bring it down at our conferences. February 12, 2012 dtunkelang (Daniel Tunkelang)
- @tinyFey Certainly possible. Perhaps @hmason can share more insight on the matter. February 12, 2012 dtunkelang (Daniel Tunkelang)
- The 45 second talks at #sss2012 really are madness! February 12, 2012 dtunkelang (Daniel Tunkelang)
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- @dtunkelang maybe people usually have a separate account where they read adult content, and use their main account to read everything else. February 12, 2012 tinyFey (Tiny Fey)
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- People who read adult content don't read much else. Same for religious content -- data analysis by @hmason #wsdm2012 February 12, 2012 dtunkelang (Daniel Tunkelang)
- RT @wsdm2012: Lots of fun data and cute kittens in @HMason's #WSDM2012 closing keynote. February 12, 2012 dtunkelang (Daniel Tunkelang)
- RT @skairam: @WSDM2012 I really like @hmason's use of the term "Counting Cleverly" - think I'm going to start borrowing that. #WSDM2012 February 12, 2012 dtunkelang (Daniel Tunkelang)
- Props to @hmason for admitting that her team predicted a revolution in Morocco based on training data but it didn't happen #wsdm2012 February 12, 2012 dtunkelang (Daniel Tunkelang)
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1 User-Generated Public Relations | The Noisy Channel // Nov 26, 2008 at 10:44 am
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2 Omar Alonso // Nov 26, 2008 at 11:06 am
What about Mechanical Turk instead of GetACoder.com
3 Daniel Tunkelang // Nov 26, 2008 at 11:12 am
Is there anything in the terms of service about submitting recursively enumerable (but not recursive) tasks?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursively_enumerable_language
4 Bob // Apr 15, 2009 at 10:10 am
It seems as if Alan Turing has paid a visit to RentACoder:
http://www.rentacoder.com/RentACoder/misc/BidRequests/ShowBidRequest.asp?lngBidRequestId=1146467
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