Could you elaborate about the value of Elixir, please?
It's been on my radar for quite a while now.
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Yes, that's one of my main motivations. I'm comfortable enough with Python, Java (comfortable doesn't mean I enjoy this one) and C.
> Do you have projects in mind?
Yes, both are solely for the purpose of enrichment of my current set of skills and knowledge: - Source control system that is a "lite" version of git. - A bit torrent client.
Nice to have's: - a rich library ecosystem (like Python and Go, for instance) - as close to C as possible, in terms of speed
I can see some important (in "PageRank" sense) hubs emerging, which could give rise to problems that are analogous to those in the current proof-of-work setting, and the associated mining pool centralization.
So far, I've found this, but it doesn't seem to be programmable, in a conventional way:
I'll have a look at the Jolla prototype, and try to contact their engineering team, if it turns out to be relevant enough.
And the question had to do with whether having such kind of a "platform" would benefit more from having the book component published by professionals, or self-published.
Could you, please, provide some examples of those small publishers you got in mind (in case you actually did)?
> They'll save you a lot of pain -- don't underestimate the work of printing, marketing, and distribution.
That's a great point! I completely agree.
Unless, they: (i) can predict the future; (ii) invent a time machine, which may a superset of (i), subject to the associated limitations of the "device"; (iii) break Google's algorithm in a way that they could know in advance which customer would be served which (Re)CAPTCHA at exactly which point in time.
The latest point would be extremely challenging even if they were printing a (Re)CAPTCHA in real time, during the process of filling the physical form.
> the principle that "every action on the web form is matched by the customer's ink marks on paper"
I think some of this would also be impossible, because the web form does not exist in isolation and is part of a particular browser environment: - browser version - installed plug-ins - associated plug-in settings - auto-fill suggestions
Then, one goes down the rabbit hole of other un-matchable features such as, peculiarities of the underlying OS. For instance, in the context of Windows 10, a user may get an additional dose of distraction due to receiving utterly unscientific claims regarding battery-life increase under re-branded versions (but, nevertheless, only useful for downloading other browsers, such as Firefox or Chrome) of Internet Explorer.
All of this begins to sound a bit like a free version of Amazon's Mechanical Turk platform. Further versions of such paper forms may actually be used for outsourcing Turing Test questions to wetware, so that we could read further waves of ridiculous articles copy-and-pasting misunderstandings regarding the great achievements of the next "AI" which has "passed" the test.
Would you mind sharing some websites - based on your own experience or otherwise - where one could find "legitimate" (in quotes because it's, somehow, definition-specific) ghostwriters?
And, perhaps, if you wouldn't mind giving a reference to a sample list of requirement documents (provided by the person who's requesting the work) and, possibly, guidelines for preparing those (e.g., in terms of format etc.)?