Beyond Turk and Hindu

Crowdsourcing Transcription Beyond Mechanical Turk

While much work has studied crowdsourced transcription via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, we are not familiar with any prior cross-platform analysis of crowdsourcing service providers for transcription. We present a qualitative and quantitative analysis of eight such providers: 1888-Type-It-Up, 3Play Media, Transcription Hub, CastingWords, Rev, TranscribeMe, Quicktate, and SpeakerText. We also provi...

Beyond Mechanical Turk: An Analysis of Paid Crowd Work Platforms

While Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (AMT) helped launch online crowd work in 2005, a myriad of newer vendors now offer alternative feature sets and workflow models for accomplishing quality crowd work. Unfortunately, research on crowd work has remained largely focused on AMT, with little exploration of other platforms. Such near-exclusive focus on AMT risks its particular vagaries and limitations ov...

Hindu Medicine

Hindu medicine correctly judged by him is a composite system. It consists of a Dravidian system on which was superimposed an Aryan system on which in its turn was superimposed a Buddhist system. The Dravidian system centres round Dhanvantari who does not figure in the vedic pantheon of the Aryan immigrants. He is one of the 14 jewels churned out of the milky ocean at the beginning of time when ...

Brass,Hindu-Muslim Violence

Reflections on Hindu Theology