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bronty | 12 years ago

It actually can't -- a fundamental characteristic of this marketplace is that the work can be automatically verified [1].

As part of my PhD work, I created a service for crowdsourcing the verification of Java programs which relied on the same characteristic: http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~mernst/pubs/veriweb-oopsla20....

One limitation of these crowd-sourcing approaches is that, in practice, validation ("are we trying to build/prove the right thing?") is as important, if not more important, than verification.

[1] this might not be quite true yet, since a solution of "admitted." would pass the Coq checker.

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pirapira|12 years ago

"admit" does not pass the checker right now. coqchk -o is used to detect those assumptions.

tel|12 years ago

Is that something a grep couldn't fix?

bronty|12 years ago

Yes, a grep could locate that.