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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1 User-Generated Public Relations | The Noisy Channel // Nov 26, 2008 at 10:44 am
[...] outsourcing the halting problem might not get you very far, outsourcing PR may be the next new thing for retailers. Saul Hansell at [...]
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