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Re:Interview: Luis von Ahn on Duolingo - large-scale, crowds... by wesleyk on Wednesday November 30, 2011 @10:40AM (#3295342)
von Ahn gave a talk at Carnegie Mellon last spring on Duolingo as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQl6jUjFjp4
Re:Interview: Luis von Ahn on Duolingo - large-scale, crowds... by nickpinkston on Wednesday November 30, 2011 @01:02PM (#3295993)
Yea, that was a great talk - I was there. I love the n-sided task arbitrages this guys comes up with. Is there a word for these? I mean "games for good" is a subset, crowdsourcing a superset, but is there anything more specific?