Truk: Platform for Multi-HIT sequences on Amazon's Mechanical Turk Crowdsourcing Platform
MySQL, PHP, and Flash conspire to allow for multi-job sequences with a persistent store of worker information.
Developed for the Stanford Language and Cognition Lab to support multi-day artificial language learning experiments.
Developed for the Stanford Language and Cognition Lab to support multi-day artificial language learning experiments.
Feverdream: San Francisco From Data
A feverdream sponsored by questions needing answers Who pays the most taxes? Who has the most bathroom? What are the oldest streets? What are the bounds of urban renewal projects? What signature do hipsters leave in data? Who owns San Francisco?
Octópus: Distributed PHP Web Scraper
Spaghetti code in an unfashionable language. Secure like a Sony website. On the upside uses multicurl, runs through TOR, and interfaces with Pete Warden's excellent Data Science Toolkit. Too slow? Fire up the VMs.
A retranslation of Borges' "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"
Alastair Reid's translation, like James Irby's before it, neglects some of the syntactic oddities and lexical ambiguities of the original work. Borges himself endorsed Reid's, but to take Borges at his word would be quite silly.
Many Tasty Brews
I have also been known to make beer.