Re:Building high-level features using large scale unsupervis...
by JohnHaugeland on Friday June 22, 2012 @02:26PM
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"When you think about it, large scale requires unsupervised..."
Not necessarily. Crowdsourcing is another option, like Google's image tagging game, reCAPTCHA, et cetera.
Pay a herd of people to do things, and they'll do things for you. You don't have to pay them in money. Telling them they have a high score is often enough.
Re:Building high-level features using large scale unsupervis...
by mturmon on Friday June 22, 2012 @03:40PM
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Yes, "requires" was too strong. I should have said they go well together. I was trying to get at the fact that it's highly common for large-scale work to be unsupervised.
Not necessarily. Crowdsourcing is another option, like Google's image tagging game, reCAPTCHA, et cetera.
Pay a herd of people to do things, and they'll do things for you. You don't have to pay them in money. Telling them they have a high score is often enough.