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encourage subsequent funders to invest in the project. While funding does not depend on location, observation shows that funding is largely tied to the
Atelier: Repurposing Expert Crowdsourcing Tasks as Micro-internships
Expert crowdsourcing marketplaces have untapped potential to empower workers' career and skill development. Currently, many workers cannot afford to invest the time and sacrifice the earnings required to learn a new skill, and a lack of experience ma...
Written Justifications are Key to Aggregate Crowdsourced Forecasts
This paper demonstrates that aggregating crowdsourced forecasts benefits from modeling the written justifications provided by forecasters. Our experiments show that the majority and weighted vote baselines are competitive, and that the written justif...
Work Capacity of Freelance Markets: Fundamental Limits and Decentralized Schemes
Crowdsourcing of jobs to online freelance markets is rapidly gaining popularity. Most crowdsourcing platforms are uncontrolled and offer freedom to customers and freelancers to choose each other. This works well for unskilled jobs (e.g., image classi...
The Unwriten Rules of How NA LAN Crowds Choose who to Root For (100% unserious)
I was bored and had nothing better to do, so I decided to put together a general list of trends, rules, and unspoken guidelines usually followed by NA LAN crowds when deciding which team to root for i...
Regressor-Segmenter Mutual Prompt Learning for Crowd Counting
Crowd counting has achieved significant progress by training regressors to predict instance positions. In heavily crowded scenarios, however, regressors are challenged by uncontrollable annotation variance, which causes density map bias and context i...
Nonprofit Adopt a Star: Lessons from 15 years of Crowdfunding
In the past 15 years, the number of known planets outside of our solar system has grown from about 200 to more than 5000. During that time, we have conducted one of the longest crowdfunding campaigns in history, a nonprofit adopt a star program that...
Designing Refund Bonus Schemes for Provision Point Mechanism in Civic Crowdfunding
Civic crowdfunding (CC) is a popular medium for raising funds for civic projects from interested agents. With Blockchains gaining traction, we can implement CC in a reliable, transparent, and secure manner with smart contracts (SCs). The fundamental...
Multi-Use Trust in Crowdsourced IoT Services
We introduce the concept of adaptive trust in crowdsourced IoT services. It is a customized fine-grained trust tailored for specific IoT consumers. Usage patterns of IoT consumers are exploited to provide an accurate trust value for service providers...
User Donations in a Crowdsourced Video System
Crowdsourced video systems like YouTube and Twitch.tv have been a major internet phenomenon and are nowadays entertaining over a billion users. In addition to video sharing and viewing, over the years they have developed new features to boost the com...
CODA-19: Using a Non-Expert Crowd to Annotate Research Aspects on 10,000+ Abstracts in the…
This paper introduces CODA-19, a human-annotated dataset that codes the Background, Purpose, Method, Finding/Contribution, and Other sections of 10,966 English abstracts in the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset. CODA-19 was created by 248 crowd workers...
The Unofficial Official Alex Jones - JRE Comprehensive Crowdsourced podcast fact-check pro…
#Intro This is the first post of a three part project to generate a comprehensive community/crowdsourced fact-check of the [Alex Jones/Eddie Bravo JRE podcast, #1255](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
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While speaking to a crowd, Donald Trump attempts to mock Joe Biden’s cancer, he is met wit…
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Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999). Model maker Michael Lynch created a mock…
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Tombs of Amascut drop rate estimates from wiki/RuneLite crowdsourcing
Hi folks! People have been asking me to write up a description of what we've learned about Tombs of Amascut drop rates from the [wiki/RuneLite crowdsourcing project](https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/...
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[https://www.aol.com/news/fed-crowd-massachusetts-swarms-ice-133234271.html](https://www.aol.com/news/fed-crowd-massachusetts-swarms-ice-133234271.html) Harrowing new video footage reveals the moment...
Exploring the crowded central region of 10 Galactic globular clusters using EMCCDs. Variab…
Obtain time-series photometry of the very crowded central regions of Galactic globular clusters with better angular resolution than previously achieved with conventional CCDs on ground-based telescopes to complete, or improve, the census of the varia...
A Practical System for Guaranteed Access in the Presence of DDoS Attacks and Flash Crowds
With the growing incidents of flash crowds and sophisticated DDoS attacks mimicking benign traffic, it becomes challenging to protect Internet-based services solely by differentiating attack traffic from legitimate traffic. While fair-sharing schemes...
Estimation of the qualification and behavior of a contributor and aggregation of his answe…
Crowdsourcing is the outsourcing of tasks to a crowd of contributors on a dedicated platform. The crowd on these platforms is very diversified and includes various profiles of contributors which generates data of uneven quality. However, majority vot...