On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 09:06:19 -0700 Steven Schear wrote:

I'm not sure but think the completion option should have been, "if none click SHIP".

funnily enough that mock captcha (it's a joke Georgi...) may be more solvable than the garbage that googlepentagon actually 'serves'. Their current captchas are just a bunch of small, blurry, noisy collections of random pixels.

On Mon, Jul 16, 2018, 8:55 AM Georgi Guninski wrote:

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What is this code doing? Looks like obfuscated javascript, not fully shown.

On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 04:50:15PM -0700, Steven Schear wrote:

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On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 15:41:18 -0700 Mirimir wrote:

On 07/16/2018 01:48 PM, juan wrote:

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On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 09:06:19 -0700 Steven Schear wrote:

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I'm not sure but think the completion option should have been, "if none click SHIP".

funnily enough that mock captcha (it's a joke Georgi...) may be more solvable than the garbage that googlepentagon actually 'serves'. Their current captchas are just a bunch of small, blurry, noisy collections of random pixels.

Yeah, I've noticed that they've become far blurrier over the past year or so. I wonder what's up with that. Maybe harder training sets for AIs?

well that's the same technical explanation that first came to my mind. Anyway, to the state the obvious, those captchas are not used to block bots or 'turing test' people. I also wonder if the websites using the captcha 'service' are choosing a high difficulty setting for their own retarded reasons.

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On Mon, Jul 16, 2018, 8:55 AM Georgi Guninski wrote:

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What is this code doing? Looks like obfuscated javascript, not fully shown.

On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 04:50:15PM -0700, Steven Schear wrote:

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Cool!  Good move. While I have often shared many ideas and improvements online and IRL, I would have been much better off had I shared every idea I had early and often.  I try to be much more parsimonious about the things that I save back.  At Collision 2018 in New Orleans recently, I made possibly valuable suggestions for improvements and new directions to several startup founders who were all very appreciative for things they hadn't thought of or been aware of. Doesn't pay the bills, but it's fun.  My queue is always too long anyway. Stephen On 7/16/18 1:54 PM, Steven Schear wrote:

I guess I was lucky I got credited, by mentioning online, early concepts for the Warrant Canary and (what became known as) The Street Performer Protocol before others.

On Mon, Jul 16, 2018, 1:36 PM Stephen D. Williams mailto:sdw@lig.net> wrote:

Cool! That's a good idea.  I may implement it and similar things soon.  Just for posterity, I independently invented CAPTCHA, I think a year before the CMU kids thought of it.  I even began filing a patent while at my startup in the late 1990's, but we ran out of money.  I should have continued, although the situation was murky.  Imagine my surprise a couple years later at the IJCAI AI conferences in Acapulco when the CMU team presented CAPTCHA at an extra presentation at the end of the conference.  I went on a lark because the point of the presentation wasn't clear until I was sitting in it.  Just one of the many things I've thought of / invented that I didn't capitalize on, or give away in a timely fashion.  Par for the course; many people will have similar ideas at similar points in time.

sdw

On 7/14/18 4:50 PM, Steven Schear wrote: