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		reedlaw on April 11, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ReCAPTCHA Founder's New Startup: Killing Two Birds... It's hard to imaging how the task of translation can be combined with language learning since one requires great competency and the other requires little or no competency.

danohuiginn on April 12, 2011 [–]

Presumably, as with recaptcha, the idea is that averaging over lots of amateur efforts gives you something close to the work of a single expert.

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