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Updated 171 Days ago
Strike? What Strike?
I don’t really feel the effects of the writer’s strike….yet. It’s kind of nice not to have to sit through awards shows. I know, you’re saying “well then just don’t watch them.” It’s pressure!!! I feel like I’m going to miss out on something if I don’t sit through the three hour show. So, I’m kind of glad the Golden Globes were cancelled. For now I’m perfectly content with my reality shows and the few series shows that have original episodes left.
The Real Housewives of Orange County just ended but we have The Real Housewives of New York coming up on Bravo. I’m a fan of Project Runway, Millionaire Matchmaker and Make Me a Supermodel—all on Bravo. I know, I’m not getting smarter watching any of these shows but some are entertaining. They’re good shows to have on while I’m doing my Sudoku puzzles or on the computer.
You want some catfights? Either Rock of Love 2 with Bret Michaels on VH1 or Bad Girls Club on Oxygen can provide. Now that’s entertainment!!! Janice Dickenson is always good for a few laughs with her modeling agency show on Oxygen. I’m watching Celebrity Apprentice out of habit I think. Dance Wars with Bruno and Carrie Ann—eh? Take it or leave it. I love watching Biggest Loser but I always seem to be snacking on something really bad for me when it’s on. I can’t figure that one out. Moment of Truth on Fox could get interesting. Of course---American Idol!!!!!!!!! Oh, don’t forget about Intervention on A & E..not exactly uplifting but if you want to see what happens if you fool around with drugs, this is the show. Scary! Could be good for parents to watch to get in touch with what’s going on “out there.”
As far as the “scripted” shows that still have new episodes—Medium, love it!! Friday Night Lights, great show. Las Vegas, I still think Tom Selleck is hot (Hello—the 80’s are calling; they want your mustache back.) The new show Cashmere Mafia on ABC is pretty darn good. There’s a show that looks similar, Lipstick Jungle that will premiere soon on NBC. Of course I have my old standby, Days of Our Lives. Marlena and John are still on and John doesn’t know who he is-----again. If I’m missing a show, please comment below!!!!
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What is reCAPTCHA?
reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service that helps to digitize books.A CAPTCHA is a program that can tell whether its user is a human or a computer. You've probably seen them Ñ colorful images with distorted text at the bottom of Web registration forms. CAPTCHAs are used by many websites to prevent abuse from "bots," or automated programs usually written to generate spam. No computer program can read distorted text as well as humans can, so bots cannot navigate sites protected by CAPTCHAs.
About 60 million CAPTCHAs are solved by humans around the world every day. In each case, roughly ten seconds of human time are being spent. Individually, that's not a lot of time, but in aggregate these little puzzles consume more than 150,000 hours of work each day. What if we could make positive use of this human effort? reCAPTCHA does exactly that by channeling the effort spent solving CAPTCHAs online into "reading" books.
To archive human knowledge and to make information more accessible to the world, multiple projects are currently digitizing physical books that were written before the computer age. The book pages are being photographically scanned, and then transformed into text using "Optical Character Recognition" (OCR). The transformation into text is useful because scanning a book produces images, which are difficult to store on small devices, expensive to download, and cannot be searched. The problem is that OCR is not perfect.
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. More specifically, each word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is placed on an image and used as a CAPTCHA. This is possible because most OCR programs alert you when a word cannot be read correctly.
But if a computer can't read such a CAPTCHA, how does the system know the correct answer to the puzzle? Here's how: Each new word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is given to a user in conjunction with another word for which the answer is already known. The user is then asked to read both words. If they solve the one for which the answer is known, the system assumes their answer is correct for the new one. The system then gives the new image to a number of other people to determine, with higher confidence, whether the original answer was correct.
Currently, we are helping to digitize books from the Internet Archive and old editions of the New York Times.