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This miscellaneous learning collection includes small explanations and ambitious collaboration ideas. These starting points both question an intuitive label: a postal code is part of a delivery process, and a learning interface can also organize work.

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Grey’s postal-code explanation is the more bounded starting point for examining what a familiar identifier actually does. Von Ahn’s TED talk presents an early model of large-scale online collaboration and language learning. Choose the first for the mismatch between a label and a system’s function; choose the second for the incentives behind many small contributions. Be careful with time: an early product pitch can explain an idea without describing the product’s current business or operation.

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The postal explanation concerns particular addressing systems, not every country’s rules. The TED talk’s early Duolingo translation model is historical and should not be described as the current service.

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