of-rage-and-love:

hashtag-med-school:

kaeebonrai:

nunyabizni:

intergalactic-dorks:

intergalactic-dorks:

Everytime you fill in CAPTCHA you’re helping to digitalize old books and documents. Using CAPTCHA abt 250 books are added to a digital database everyday

Its called RECAPTCHA! The creator of CAPTCHA (Luis von Ahn) realised a lot of time was being wasted with CAPTCHA (worldwide we spend about 500,000 hours doing CAPTCHA every day)

So he wanted to put it to good use

The reason why CAPTCHA uses wonky letters is because computers can’t read them, but we can!

But when trying to automatically digitalise old books and documents this becomes a hindrance because computers often cant read the faded old letters. So the digitalising is done by humans (very costly and time consuming)

Anyway Ahn found out about these a integraded into captcha creating RECAPTCHA.

Everyday about 150 (sorry i meant 150 not 250) old books get digitalized this way. They are currently using it to digitalize the whole archive of The New York Times (since 1851)

So we’re all kinda building a digital library of alexandria this way by using captcha, noice

https://techcrunch.com/2007/09/16/recaptcha-using-captchas-to-digitize-books/

reCAPTCHA Founded 2007. Overview reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service
that helps to digitize books, newspapers and old time radio shows.
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.

In case any of you thought this was BS

I always love seeing reCAPTCHA being used.

That’s what my dad told me too.

So when we fill out those wonky letters, we are basically helping the computer read weird handwriting.

Look at these curvy letters! Much curvier than most letters, wouldn’t you say? No robot could read these! 

kim-my-art:

IT’S PIKACHUU!

Collab animation with @icepalette. I did the keyframes & color, & icepalette did Background, some in-betweens & the audio sync.
Audio from this vine.
We thought it sounded kinda like Donatello if he’s yelling…But mostly we just wanted to draw the turtles from nickelodeon’s Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Because it is a gift to this world & we love it & highly recommend watching it.
this vid’s also on youtube here.

stilesisbiles:

stilesisbiles:

stilesisbiles:

stilesisbiles:

Why do so many baseball mascots need to have a female mascot counterpart to ‘prove’ they’re straight?

(Joke’s on you, they’re all bisexual.)

Update: I made a thing

This annoyed a homophobe so making another edit

oh and here’s lil bi trans boy me being a Mets fan (I was a switch hitter, in fact.)

Baseball is bisexual. It even starts with a B. You can’t stop us. 💖💜💙

Since this post STILL keeps annoying homophobic sports fans:

All of baseball…swings both ways. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.