Monday, February 05, 2007
Lifesaver Mechanical Turk
While this is a great gesture and there's no arguing with it, Amazon should not insist you accept the HIT before you do it, and many of the images are delivered to me as blank/black, which I'm sure is a mistake. Being totally untrained in spotting flotsam, my criteria change as I see more images. I fear that even with the fine examples they provide of what exactly I'm looking for, a piece of software would do as good a job as they'll be flagged with many false positives unnecessarily. Furthermore their sample images do not tell you what to look for in terms of life-rafts, assuming that the boat will be intact and upright. And then of course remember that software is not comprised at least partially of misguided teens and arseholes. Google/Amazon, give us more examples of what would be useful. An upright floating boat is presumably one of the less likely options here... | ||
