Apparently, I need to spend more time reading through man pages so that I know about cool features in programs that I’ve used for years. If you run vim as “vimdiff” or “vim -d” it will display the differences between the files and it will dynamically update the display of the differences as you edit the files.

There is even a plugin for bazaar which adds the command “bzr vimdiff”, which makes it really easy to copy-and-paste parts of old versions of the file.

Tom Sawyer would be proud. Someone has convinced thousands of people that the tedious task of labeling images is really a fun ESP game.

In addition to the ESP game, Carnegie Mellon has also created the Peekaboom game to gather information about where objects are in images.

 This is a presentation on how/why researchers are using Human Computation to solve problems that computers can’t solve.