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		wesleyk on Nov 30, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Interview: Luis von Ahn on Duolingo - large-scale,... von Ahn gave a talk at Carnegie Mellon last spring on Duolingo as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQl6jUjFjp4

nickpinkston on Nov 30, 2011 [–]

Yea, that was a great talk - I was there. I love the n-sided task arbitrages this guys comes up with. Is there a word for these? I mean "games for good" is a subset, crowdsourcing a superset, but is there anything more specific?

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