When I opened up Slashdot today, I saw a googol - 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999997 articles today. That's a lot of news items about Google.
I am a student at one of CMU's summer programs called Andrew's Leap and they gave a presentation on this program to us.
The premise was that no algorithm existed for computers to be able to find where within a picture a certain object existed. But who is good at doing these things? People. Normally, a group of people would be paid to sort through hundreds of thousands of different images and find where a certain object was. But this was slow, and consumed unnecessary resources (like money). However, the ingenious people at CMU developed a clever way to make it fun, so much so that people would actually WANT to do it. By making a game.
The creater, a person whose name is Roy, spent a year working on the game. Please don't diss it too much. How would you like it if someone dissed your program that you spent your life on, making it as good as possible?
On a side note, the ESP Game was sold to Google for 1 million dollars. Not kidding.
I woke up, jumped out of bed, shouted Eureka, and called my best friend and said, "Wouldn't it be amazing if we placed a lithium tantalate pyroelectric crystal so that one side touched a copper disc, and then subsequently placed a tiny tungsten probe at the center of the copper disc? Then we could heat the crystal and theoretically, a very large large electric field at the end of the tugsten tip, approximately 25 billion volts per meter, would be created!!! This field gradient shouldbe theoretically so high that it strips the electrons from nearby deuterium atoms. Then, the ionized deuterium atoms then could be accelerated by this field towards a solid target of erbium deuteride. They theoretically should collide with it at such high energies that some fuse with the target!!!! It could be used for something like microthrusters!!!"
He wasn't my friend anymore after that. Which is why I didn't carry out the experiment.
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When I opened up Slashdot today, I saw a googol - 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999997 articles today. That's a lot of news items about Google.
Phillips is on a roll.
The premise was that no algorithm existed for computers to be able to find where within a picture a certain object existed. But who is good at doing these things? People. Normally, a group of people would be paid to sort through hundreds of thousands of different images and find where a certain object was. But this was slow, and consumed unnecessary resources (like money). However, the ingenious people at CMU developed a clever way to make it fun, so much so that people would actually WANT to do it. By making a game.
The creater, a person whose name is Roy, spent a year working on the game. Please don't diss it too much. How would you like it if someone dissed your program that you spent your life on, making it as good as possible?
On a side note, the ESP Game was sold to Google for 1 million dollars. Not kidding.
I woke up, jumped out of bed, shouted Eureka, and called my best friend and said, "Wouldn't it be amazing if we placed a lithium tantalate pyroelectric crystal so that one side touched a copper disc, and then subsequently placed a tiny tungsten probe at the center of the copper disc? Then we could heat the crystal and theoretically, a very large large electric field at the end of the tugsten tip, approximately 25 billion volts per meter, would be created!!! This field gradient shouldbe theoretically so high that it strips the electrons from nearby deuterium atoms. Then, the ionized deuterium atoms then could be accelerated by this field towards a solid target of erbium deuteride. They theoretically should collide with it at such high energies that some fuse with the target!!!! It could be used for something like microthrusters!!!" He wasn't my friend anymore after that. Which is why I didn't carry out the experiment.