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After that it wains

wanes

A wain is a kind of wagon or chariot.

Can someone please tell me why this submission is interesting to HN? (Obviously it is, I just can't figure out why.)

Mechnical Turk is kind of interesting. It's one of those things that I'd really like try out, but have no immediate use for. I'm sure I'm not the only one. (In fact, most of the cool projects I've seen using MTurk are of the Gee Whiz variety)

Also, people like to look at pictures.

Try soliciting suggestions for birthday or holiday presents.

Or, try soliciting feedback from 100 people on the clarity/ease of your company's sign-up process, introductory video, etc.

Many of the comments will be worthless, but you'd be surprised at the quality you get from some people, even at rates as low as $0.05-0.10.

Mechanical Turk is a fascinating tool, maybe this is not the most interesting use, but it still make hacker drool. When you can't have AI, you use AAI (Artificial AI).

You can use it to train pattern recognition. It sure beats doing the work myself.

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