Comments on: How Twitter figures out the world with machine intelligence and Mechanical Turks http://boingboing.net/2013/01/09/how-twitter-figures-out-the-wo.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Tue, 21 May 2013 03:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: kmoser http://boingboing.net/2013/01/09/how-twitter-figures-out-the-wo.html#comment-1623967 kmoser Wed, 09 Jan 2013 21:57:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=204741#comment-1623967 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ufkCzmR7PQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ufkCzmR7PQ

]]> By: Funk Daddy http://boingboing.net/2013/01/09/how-twitter-figures-out-the-wo.html#comment-1623821 Funk Daddy Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:47:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=204741#comment-1623821 "For example, suppose our evaluators tell us that [Big Bird] is related to politics; the next time someone performs this search, we know to surface ads by @barackobama or @mittromney, not ads about Dora the Explorer." Somewhere a 6-year old looking for Big Bird on twitter learned that Mitt Romney is a jerk. “For example, suppose our evaluators tell us that [Big Bird] is related to politics; the next time someone performs this search, we know to surface ads by @barackobama or @mittromney, not ads about Dora the Explorer.”

Somewhere a 6-year old looking for Big Bird on twitter learned that Mitt Romney is a jerk.

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