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Computer Science | December 11, 2002 10:55 AM | Comments (2)

gimpy-severe.jpg Article about Udi Manber in New York Times Science Section:

Human or Computer? Take This Test. As chief scientist of the Internet portal Yahoo, Dr. Udi Manber had a problem: how to differentiate human intelligence from that of a machine. By Sara Robinson.

The guy is brilliant. Amazon.com is lucky to have him. Yahoo! was pretty stupid to let him leave.

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Yahoo's good at doing stupid things. I should make a list. That'd be fun. But I don't have that kind of time on my hands right now... Someday.

Posted by Jeremy Zawodny at December 11, 2002 08:33 PM

My favorite of those was that I got the word "wait" fuzzed. I couldn't help but think that someone out there would, and then would get frustrated that they were sitting there for hours and the word never showed up. "It just kept saying 'WAIT'"...

Posted by JR at December 17, 2002 02:22 PM
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