08/13 - No I will not update Windows Thursday

The man asked how it goes from writing userscripts to building TV.. I couldn't find the appropriate visual answer, my bad, here it is:

 

It goes from...

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To...

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I'm calling George Soros right now

 

L*lly already tapped him out

 

MPI Dept. of Perceiving Systems [AXRUQMJCJU83Q] Mark the duration of actions in a video. - $8.75 | PANDA

Generous

Unrated

Unrated

$29.58 / hour
00:17:45 / completion time

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Pros:
Very simple task. Many shortcuts to make it quick.

Cons:
15-minute instructional video. Task itself was about one minute. Basically just annotating the time for when an action takes place, the transition to a new action and the new action itself (however many times they occur). The clip I had was only 15 seconds long and the character performed one action the entire video (no transition). There is no way to delete the transition block so I hope this get... Read more

Catchability: Okay (HIT Last Seen: 47 minutes ago)
Qualifications: HIT approval rate (%) > 98; Total approved HITs > 5000; Location In CA, US;

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Still waiting on that fix from yesterday.

 

No one can dirty talk to a billionaire like I can

Me:Jeffrey Epstein did kill himself

Daddy Soros: aw yea bby that's the stuff, here's $500k make some FOSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

 

Chris. Never change. Please.

 

Excuse me I sent you a message pls respond.

 

Somebody please "Yikes" this so my OCD can calm down; it's the only one missing. lol

 

There's also no 5/5 Pay in your screenshot. Your OCD is weak, didn't even insta spot that.

 

Oh my god, it's so much worse now. I'm F5ing and nothing.
Fuckit, yikes and 5/5 - yep, thanks Alex, you saved me from not sleeping tonight.
Letting it go.
lol

 

Don't sell yourself short man, great reply. Especially with 50 things commanding your attention, I know that feeling. But I'm gonna come back with a lot. I rarely if ever get to talk about MTurk with anyone, let alone someone that can share advice I don't yet have.

So the reason I've started looking for more abstract ways to implement solutions in the MTurk space is because I've noticed that my only limitations are basically physical. I've got my requesters, my methods, my qualifications, my own personal twist to navigating the platform, etc. But I get burnt out doing many rote tasks over and over again, get exhausted by the interface, etcetera. Things that I'm sure the average MTurk worker also deals with. I've been able to write some scripts to streamline this, make cumbersome HITs more easy to navigate, remove garbage that I don't need to see, things like that. It's sort of that frustration with knowing what needs to be done to complete the HIT, but not being able to do it as quickly as you'd like. A small example would be seeing a page full of bubbles in a survey that you see frequently and know all of your answers to, and having to tab through or click through to answer. This is just a quick example. But the concept is what I'm focusing on: little interface things that sort of add up to create fatigue over time, if that makes sense. I developed a hope that if I continued to add to my knowledge of the languages that I would be able to make better and more complicated scripts to do what I want them to do.

So that is to say that I do *sort of* have some end goals in mind, but it was my fantasy that in becoming proficient in the languages I would slowly develop more ideas to manipulate the API and do things that would help streamline my work. A major factor holding me back right now (besides lack of work due to presumably the pandemic) is mental fatigue caused from slow interface problems that I think could be fixed with better knowledge of coding. I just reminded myself to learn AutoHotkey--I know for a fact that experience with that would help me achieve some of these goals.

I can relate to you in how you look at your code. I've never really become what you would call an expert at any language, but I've always been good with computers and able to copy-paste this, read about this, manipulate this, and make little snippets of code that do what I want them to do. I get the feeling that any professional would rip my syntax and formatting apart, but it all gets the job done for me. Though your code is messy by your own standards you've still contributed greatly to the community, and I think that's where my pipe dream starts. You've put it into a little better perspective for me, and got me thinking that maybe I should keep pushing where I'm at on MTurk and expanding my opportunities outside of it.

I think I'll learn all the front-end stuff for my website because I have to anyways, and maybe some of it will rub off onto my MTurk forays. I just think people with deep computer science backgrounds have an edge in being able to manipulate APIs into doing things for them more efficiently. I wish I had a more specific goal in mind, but I'm also trying to incorporate it with my other work, which I will explain a little because it helps me figure out what to say to people when they ask what I do LOL.

Like I said I run a digital media collective, but essentially I make art and manage others who make art. I'm a musician, digital artist, fashion designer, writer, director, producer...you name a creative outlet, and I probably am trying to incorporate it into my collective somehow. Renaissance type thing, I guess. This is my selfish career and dream, and I use gig work and the like to fund it. MTurk has been instrumental in funding, but my goals are getting bigger and it's starting to not be enough. Over the past year I've become more proficient in script writing, etcetera, and pushed my profits a little higher, but I stalled out again and when I stall out my mind starts to daydream about the things I talked about earlier ("Writing an amazing script that makes me a million dollars on MTurk"). So I'm trying to shift this knowledge that I've gained and use it to maybe score a second gig that will help me with the income aspect. I'm picky about it being freelance-type stuff because of how I operate the collective. It's very sporadic, I travel a lot, my schedule is erratic, etcetera. It doesn't bode well with someone who needs me to report in and do X job at Y time every day. I'm a hard worker, but I do so much on my own time. That's why MTurk has been so amazing in helping me build the foundation of the business.

If everything goes belly up, I have a good resume and enough connections that I could get back in the work force, but I'm pretty committed to my career at this point and it's starting to see success so I'm not all that worried. I have my finances worked out pretty well. My interest, specifically in JS, is because I was hoping to learn better and more powerful ways to mess around on MTurk while also building a skill set that will help me develop a website that coincides with the artistic stuff I do. A sort of TempleOS-inspired artistic website where I can flex my programming knowledge, advertise my business, sell stuff, etc, all in the same place.

Again, I sincerely apologize for the essay. This is definitely the most I have written in one go since college. But I've almost never been able to encapsulate all of this in one spot because not a lot of my peers are in touch with some of the stuff I do. So if anything you have helped me organize my thoughts about what I actually do with my life, LOL. Respond on your own time, don't stress it

 

Damn it, now it's this, so I do need the 5/5. Frick!


I don't know why I love it so much when this happens.

 

I went to fix it for you, but added a good review rating instead because that wasn't up there either. Probably made it worse.