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July 13, 2007

Classifying the universe, one galaxy at a time

GalaxyZoo is a mechanical Turk site that uses the "If everyone classifies just one galaxy..." approach. So far, they have a million done. (Thanks to Timo Hannay for the link.) [Tags: everything_is_miscellaneous timo_hannay mechanical_turk astronomy science ]

Posted by D. Weinberger at July 13, 2007 07:10 AM

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