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Shall we Toast? Here's what's up with Hollywood this week:
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Hugh Heffner's now one blond short of a harem. Holly Madison of Girls Next Door dropped him, but he already has a replacement or two.
Ellen went off on Paris Hilton during her recent appearance on her show and we have the clip!...plus a lil bonus for you.
Jamie Lynn Spears ain't got no baby in her belly after all...which is good, because one baby is enough to not take care of.
Reel World
Russell Crowe and Leo Di Crappy-O star in a new flick that critics are digging, we have a preview.
A bunch of b-listers star on Quarantine, a movie about an old lady with rabies...awesome!
Star Gazing
Britney Spears is off to court over an incident that happened a while back, and she's apparently looking for a fight.
Taylor Swift dropped the pop star she was dating 'cuz...why the heck not?...She's Taylor Swift!
People Magazine has found a way to profit off of death...way to go People.
That, and so much more awaits you. Just click the ToastedRav Video tab to watch.
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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.