"Before the Internet, coordinating more than 100,000 people,……" — Luis von Ahn
"Before the Internet, coordinating more than 100,000 people, let alone paying them, was essentially impossible. But now with the Internet, I've just shown you a project where we've gotten 750 million people to help us digitize human knowledge."
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Luis von Ahn
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14 Quotes by Luis von Ahn
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Every time you buy tickets on Ticketmaster, you help to digitize a book.
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The question that motivates my research is, if we can put a man on the Moon with 100,000 [people], what…
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The current business model for language education is the student pays — in particular, the student pays Rosetta Stone $500.…
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People are good at figuring out what's attractive, and computers are good at quickly searching and finding. You put them…
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My ultimate research goal is to transform our human existence to just eating, sleeping, drinking, playing - nevermind.
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I watch a lot of TV. That's how I spend most of my time outside of work. If I had…
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I definitely play some games, like Nintendo D.S. or the Wii, and some computer games.
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Basically, I want to make all of humanity more efficient by exploiting the human cycles that get wasted.
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My first computer was a Commodore 64. I got it as a present from my mom when I was eight…
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The basic idea of Games With a Purpose is that we are taking a problem that computers cannot yet solve,…
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Am I a slacker? I can be a slacker. When I was in college, most people got summer jobs for…
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Our team at Duolingo is really cohesive, but this did not just happen. I made a concerted effort to hire…
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