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Part One of this Episode features special guest host, Larry Wood, who holds the record for the most wins in the New Yorker Contest. He fills in for Vin Coca and talks with Paul Nesja and Beth Lawler about the current contests, his thoughts on crowdsourced voting and what makes a great caption.
Part Two of this Episode features an interview with the developers of the software behind the crowdsourced voting.: Robert Nowak of UW Madison with Kevin Jamison and Lalit Jain, both from the university of Washington.
Here’s a link to the contest data we talk about during the show:
https://nextml.github.io/caption-contest-data2/
Contests we discuss this week are:
The winning captions for New Yorker contest #768
Finalists for contest #770
Current New Yorker Contest #772
Send us questions or comments to:
By Vin Coca, Beth Lawler, Paul Nesja, Nicole Chrolavicius4.9
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Part One of this Episode features special guest host, Larry Wood, who holds the record for the most wins in the New Yorker Contest. He fills in for Vin Coca and talks with Paul Nesja and Beth Lawler about the current contests, his thoughts on crowdsourced voting and what makes a great caption.
Part Two of this Episode features an interview with the developers of the software behind the crowdsourced voting.: Robert Nowak of UW Madison with Kevin Jamison and Lalit Jain, both from the university of Washington.
Here’s a link to the contest data we talk about during the show:
https://nextml.github.io/caption-contest-data2/
Contests we discuss this week are:
The winning captions for New Yorker contest #768
Finalists for contest #770
Current New Yorker Contest #772
Send us questions or comments to:

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