Sunday 20 September 2009

Question for Sept. 20 - Dev

What action can you link to the following image?

We all perform this action on the blog!

Update: Hints: (1) Try to identify the person in the picture.
(2) There is a reason why I modified the picture in such a way.

6 comments:

SKK said...

masquerading?

IC said...

The person in the image is Alan Turing.
You are referring to the inverted Turing test, which we perform everyday by solving the captcha, in order to post on the blog ?

Lovely question !!

Ankur said...

quizmaster?

Gaurav Kane said...

Something to do with captchas? A pic-captcha for the future maybe?

shiv said...

I may be way off here...

For some reason, I think the picture is of Neil Patrick Harris who plays Barney on HIMYM. And he loves Laser Tag.

So I am gonna say the action is 'Tagging'

The Answer said...

The action is - answering CAPTCHAs.

The person in the picture is Alan Turing. The colors in the picture are reversed.

CAPTCHAs are a form of "reverse Turing test", in which a computer judge is trying to verify the identity (human/computer) of the entity taking the test.

[Conventionally, the Turing test is conceived as having a human judge and a computer subject which attempts to appear human.]

Congrats to Ishani for getting the answer completely correct and to Kane for the correct guess.