MyAntiAlterEgo

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MyAntiAlterEgo449 karma

The baby from Look Who's Talking was played by four kids and voiced by Bruce Willis. They are now four adult males and Bruce Willis. I don't like those odds.

MyAntiAlterEgo147 karma

You sir, are my hero.

Don't forget your towel.

MyAntiAlterEgo50 karma

Thanks to you, my wife and I cannot see a literacola in the grocery store now without bursting into screams of "Do we have literacola?" My children would be ashamed if they were old enough to know better.

MyAntiAlterEgo34 karma

First off I loved the TED talk you did, it was incredibly inspiring.

Thank you for doing an AMA!

I have a few questions:

  1. Where can we see reCAPTCHA's results?

  2. I've noticed more and more that I'm getting not just text from books, but also pictures of text on objects like street signs, this seems brilliant to me, is this a trend or am I mistaking something else for reCAPTCHA?

On Duolingo:

I love Duolingo, I'm a (relatively) active user, learning German (10) and de-rusting my Spanish (5).

So here's my Duolingo questions/comments:

  1. How will you handle languages that rely heavily on pictograms? (Japanese, Chinese, Korean) Will you use romanized versions? Or will you dive straight in?

  2. Mobile App? I know it's coming, please let us in on the beta. I find that I get my Duolingo on in fits and starts, I can sometimes sit and do it for an hour, but more often it would be best in the 5 minutes while I'm waiting for a pizza or something.

  3. When can we start seeing fully formed community translations of web pages? Can you make this easy to do? (For example: After we've completed a full page translation, show us what the page looks like with our translated text and/or the "best translated" version)

  4. Sometimes, I find that translations with poor (English) grammar are the top rated translation, how can problems like this be corrected once the collective gets ahold of them and upvotes en masse? (Simply put, how do we ensure quality?)

  5. Can we get a little stats porn on how Duolingo is doing thus far? I know when you went public you released some info, but I'm curious as to how going public has affected the output.

Thank you so much for taking the time to do this!

Edit: Added language levels.