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January 9, 2013 04:12 pm PST
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How Twitter figures out the world with machine intelligence and Mechanical Turks
On Twitter's engineering blog, a fascinating description of how Twitter uses a blend of machine intelligence and Mechanical Turk tasks to figure out, in real time, what is going on in the world: Before we delve into the details, here's an overview of how the system works. First, we monitor for which search queries are [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/5YIeZsU5cxA/how-twitter-figures-out-the-wo.html
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