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Spreading the load: volunteer computing (economist.com)
3 points by zoltz on Dec 17, 2007 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



"Thanks to the exquisite pattern-recognition capabilities of the human brain, amateurs with just a little training can distinguish between different types of galaxy far more efficiently than computers can."

It used to be considered noteworthy when computers were better at something than people, not the other way round. The tables may be turning ...




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