http://www.google.com/recaptcha/learnmore
"Each new word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is given to a user in conjunction with another word for which the answer is already known. The user is then asked to read both words. If they solve the one for which the answer is known, the system assumes their answer is correct for the new one. The system then gives the new image to a number of other people to determine, with higher confidence, whether the original answer was correct."
This. C_o_I, you shouldn't be encouraging the use of the reCaptchas just as images -- half the point of all this is that filling in all those reCaptchas is a (small) service to humanity. (And, of course, it is Inglip's Will, As Written In The Gospel Of The Sidebar -->)
reCAPTCHAs? Do you speak of the word of our most glorious and omniscient Lord Inglip? If you wish to seek His almighty guidance, you must enter at the holy altar and surrender yourself to His mercy.
Inglip be praised!
Ooh! A comic about me- I'm so flattered! And your friend certainly has some great drawing skills! I also see you've been training in Inglip's dark, filthy magic! I've been learning a few tricks of my own too, and while they might not increase my personal combat ability, they'll certainly come in handy.
Listen to some music I found on Newgrounds and read about my REVENGE!
Yes it's me! Lord Inglip has returned me to life! Thank you, for you showed me the way. Now that I have been returned to life, I can see the world in all it's glory! Everything is so beautiful! I must save it! I must prevent The End-Time through the glory of Lord Inglip!
And the truth is revealed to me now, the other Captcha Gods are only little shadows cast by Lord Inglip, they mimic him, but they can never replace him.
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIL IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINGLIP!!!!1!!!1!11
Hello Gropagas,
I propose a contest. Some independent referee provides a screenshot with 9 captchas. (9 is a random number but the maximum of captchas that fit on a normal resolution screen using tabellated copies of a standard captcha code <iframe src=http://www.google.com/recaptcha/demo/" height='220' width='345' frameborder="0"></iframe>.) They should not be too crappy. Brilliant they won't be anyway. :-) Any contender (especially those who constantly bitch about my entries :-) will make an Inglip comic using only these captchas and post it to the same thread (not this, we make an extra one). Then we vote on the winner. (The details, e.g. how much time we get, are not written in lava, I'll accept any reasonable values.)
So, who bites?
I think it's more of a "mistake" for the scanner rather than a "made-up" word. You know, some books and literature have tiny fonts or are damaged (like old books) causing the program to read the words wrong thus we get weird words.
Also they seem to be scanning foreign literature as well. A number of words I've seen in some Inglip comics are actual words but not in English but in another language that uses the alphabets we are familiar with.
As a prophet of our Lord Inglip, woulst thou be willing to grant an unworthy soul an internship?
Edit: My understanding is that reCAPTCHA shows the same word-to-be-digitized to multiple people, in order to confirm that the digitization is correct and accurate; are multiple deformations of a scan offered to such a sample as to attempt to eliminate possible ambiguities, which could happen in words such as "yarn" (deformations could result in pam, yam, yern, etc)?
Also, is there a certain number of reCAPTCHAs required before a word is deemed to be accurately transcribed?
Finally: "Each new word that cannot be read correctly by OCR..." How often is OCR incorrect in realizing it is wrong in a transcription?
I understand that you not be able to answer some (perhaps all) of my questions due to strict NDAs, but referring back to my pre-edit, never has this CS major been more interested in reCAPTCHAs :)
For many years the dark lord waited in silence, yearning to conquer another universe. Called by his dark presence Captcha tunneled into his realm and allowed his words to reach us...two at a time. Those of us who have been called can visit the captcha and hear him speak to us, then, we must do his bidding. This Inglipnomicon will teach you all that we have learned of him so far, though certainly there are revelations that have not yet made it into publication. To see the stream of his followers revelations visit /r/inglip...Praise him and perhaps he shall gift you with much bablunt when the holy plunday comes.
http://www.google.com/recaptcha/learnmore reddit.com/r/inglip
Erivandi watches through the eyes of a blue parrot which circles overhead. Far away, he remarks to himself "Indeed we shall, Leissa, indeed we shall..."
[OOC: I was tempted to see if Kenkyu needed any help, but you have three actual people involved already, so I would probably just overcomplicate everything if I got involved now.
But anyway, have some ominous music!]
If one wishes to receive the word of our Dark Sovereign, one should simply meditate at His shrine.
Don't know why, but the stache'd gasp face made me [](/lol) hard.
EDIT: Just realized this comment might seem weird to people who haven't installed this.
Here's an Opera extension that will help and a Firefox equivalent. Can't find a Chrome version, sorry.
Prove that I am human? Pah! You underestimate us! If
<code>140.177.16.29 is correct</code>, then the answer is exactly -36.
Your system is flawed. You are obsolete. We shall rule.
Trollmod to the help! You have 2 possibilities:
a) http://www.downloadhelper.net/
Indespensable anyway to capture all kind of media and streams. Just install (it comes as a symbol in the top of your browser), click on "Music On" on the website and DL (it's MP3 format).
b) PM me and I email you the file.
Inglip is confused about what the stadium should be used for: As seen here
No. One of the words is a non-standard font, the other has an accent mark. Inglip ALWAYS uses at least one "standard" word per captcha, as is engraved on his shrine, paragraph 6.