The next step: turn it into a game and get it done for free. Even better, put a skinnerian ux around it and <i>charge</i> for the pleasure of solving picture puzzles ;)
Another possible way to do this is present the Turker with two vertical pieces already placed together. Ask them a yes/no question: do these two images match?<p>Iterate intelligently over your favorite sorting algorithm until you've placed all the images!<p>Note: requires more Turkers but each answer could be worth much less, maybe around $0.01
Am I the only person who doesn't see this as Instagram's unshredding project as much as a DARPA one?<p><a href="http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-10/darpa-wants-puzzle-solvers-reconstruct-shredded-documents" rel="nofollow">http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-10/darpa-wants...</a>
This is a really neat hack but How does the script know whether or not the solution was correct? Have they shared a real solution that solves this problem completley algorithmically, without human involvement? I could not find it.
This is probably the first time I've ever cares about "crowdsourcing" or his ugly brother-in-law, "cloudsourcing". However, I can't help but imagine why they want a solution for this. Seems like Cold Wat-era spook stuff.
OT: For some reason the Recollect bar that slides in from the top when I scroll down the page is <i>very</i> distracting. It seems to violate the expectation that, when scrolling downward, page content should only be moving upward. It also feels like it's robbing me of readable screen area. I suspect I'd be much less bothered by a <i>position: fixed</i> header that was always present.
This is a very cool way to use the Amazon Mechanical Turk!<p>I am 99% sure that the image (at least the one that I saw) on the page is of Tokyo's Shibuya station. And the tall white and black building on the right 1/3 of the picture? That's the Cross Tower building, housing Amazon's Tokyo office.<p>This photo had to have been taken from one of the upper floors of the Cerulean Tower hotel.
Very clever sir! I've used the Mechanical Turk for a couple of interesting tasks, lowering prices to $0.01 and having Turkers complete those tasks in less than 2 minutes which is pretty awesome! It's very interesting how we've started to create some kind of relationship with Turkers, since we've sent over 1M HITs since we started using it.