By definition, CAPTCHA should be easy to read by humans but hard to read by machines. Apparently, they don’t agree with that at D&B: They put CAPTCHA in a plain HTML text, and then put an ugly background below so it can’t be read by humans. I knew corporate developers can be of lower quality, [...]
I thought I was an experienced traveler. But my first night in India proved me completely wrong. Prelude It was 2007 and I took a very nonchalant approach to getting to India. I booked an airplane ticket but decided not to reserve any accommodation. I wanted a real backpacking experience, directly going to cheap hostels [...]
We know that people are not rational. Humans have emotions and limited little brains. But, is it only a technological challenge that is preventing us to build a completely rational machine? I think it is not just a technological issue and that it is in the very nature of thinking that we need irrationality: When [...]