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Sticky Authorship

24.03.2014 by Sergey Vasilyev Leave a Comment
sticky authorship

There is a little emotional and psychological problem I call “sticky authorship” syndrome. When you create something — a web site, a picture, an application — you inevitably become its author for life. No matter how long time ago it was, and how perfect you are nowadays, you are still the author and your work still characterizes your professional level.

Since our past produce (as seen from the future) are always far from perfect, we are usually ashamed by its mere existence. And we desire to re-make it, despite of the absence of time to do that or the boredom we will suffer while doing that. Inability or reluctance to remake it causes stress and depression.

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Posted in: Development Tagged: authorship, career, cognitive bias, cv, depression, experiment, mind, obligation, portfolio, profession, psychology, responsibility, resume, stress

MTurk Quality Experiment #1

11.08.2011 by Sergey Vasilyev 3 Comments

As I’ve previously mentioned in my Twitter (nolar), I’ve been experimenting with Amazon MTurk, and here are the preliminary results of the quality of the results for one specific task of translation of the texts from English to Russian.

Initially I wanted to name this article as “Zoo of Mechanical Turkeys”, but changed my mind for better SEO of this article (I mean relevancy, not the traffic and popularity of the Dark SEO). I don’t know why MTurk is so associated with turkeys in my mind, when it has nothing to do with these birds or nationality.

I guess, the results will show why it happens so. But before I will give you the results, I want to describe what the task is, and why is it so unusual.

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Posted in: Development Tagged: amazon, api, artificial intelligence, aws, boto, experiment, hit, human intelligence task, intelligence, mturk, python, quality, statistics

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