grrrr.

[da]

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I tend to think that telling computers from humans has gotten to be too difficult a problem, if this is the sample text they expect a human to translate.

Just sayin'.

Comments

[chezmax]

.. Is.. that a lambda?

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

...or... katakana?
...or two overlaid letters?

beats the daylights out of me.

[dr-tectonic.livejournal.com]

My guess is AF7sV22.

I think the real answer is "requiring users to demonstrate human visual pattern recognition is not an effective way of solving whatever problem you're trying to solve, since anyone who's motivated can hire a human visual cortex for pretty cheap."

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

It is sort of funny: I have to assume it's the only one of Manuel Blum's brilliant ideas (and he's had a bunch) that was defeated by globalism.

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

I actually just posted about this to a mailing list. :) "Are you trying to determine if I'm a replicant or a lesbian, Mr. Deckard?"

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's those random weird symbols from Sneakers.

[pekmez.livejournal.com]

hmm, I think it's a Hebrew gimel, http://www.derech.org/gimmel.html
Funny, that's not on my keyboard! ;-)

Yes!

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

ג !

I just discovered, it's incredibly difficult to paste a gimmel from the browser, and then type something else, because the something else wants to go to the left. Then when the something else is roman alphabet, it gets all screwed up about where to put the cursor.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

or the matrix? ...which I suppose was actually derivative of sneakers.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

yyyyessss. I can see that lower-case s now.

I should've hired a better visual cortex.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

"Let me tell you about my mother."

[earthling177.livejournal.com]

I've been to a couple of sites where I couldn't make heads or tails of the pix -- luckily, they had to comply to some disability-act or another, so they *also* had a link you could click that would read the text to you out loud, so if you can hear it you can type it. Very strange.

Re: Yes!

[pekmez.livejournal.com]

You just discovered one of the joys inherent in editing things like our
wedding program (eventually LaTeXified, though even that had its
issues along the way) and our Passover haggadah (not yet done in LaTeX)
in OpenOffice!

damn editors that don't know how to mix left-to-right and right-to-left
languages.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

I've never resorted to that. but I'm certainly glad they have to do that too.

Re: Yes!

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

One of my colleagues (who is an American who lived in Israel for several years) does a fair amount of research on this topic.

[Too bad he's a bit of a Brazil nut...]

Re: Yes!

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

But he's a nice Brazil nut. ;)

[chezmax]

Matrix characters were just backwards katakana, iirc :)