Recently I’ve learned the truth about reCAPTCHA – a project of Google good company. For reference, CAPTCHA means Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. Alan Turing was the first person who coined the term Artificial Intelligence (AI) and developed a specific test to determine AI. So, the CAPTCHA is a special case of Turing test for artificial intelligence. Now, what I wanted to tell you about reCAPTCHA.
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Recently I’ve made a greate effort (basicaly applying to myself) – I’ve tuned up my wi-fi router Linksys WRT54G2 for sharing IPTV. In fact, the sharing is not only for the iPad abd iPhone, but for other devices as well, and the article is named to attract search traffic) The main goal of the experiment was to make my mac-computer able to view iptv. Although a TV as itself is pure evil, sometimes it is fun to watch in parallel with any news, educational, or sports, cartoons… As personally for me, it’s a kind of relax for the brain sometimes. And so what do we have at the moment: wifi-router Linksys WRT54G2, ISP Interzet (this is not a principle, again, it’s mentioned mostly for search engines), the iMac, Windows-PC computer and a bunch of gadgets – iPhone, iPad, androids.

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Somewhere in the middle of May I’ve heard about one famous event in the game-developement industry – the White Nights conference which’s gonna take place in the Saint-Petersburg city. The fact that Vasilievsky island has been announced as the venue has become an additional motivation for me to take part in this event. Basic motivation of course was to listen to wise men who succeeded in game-developement, besides, the list of conferies was very promising.
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