I'm Dr. Joshua Schwimmer, a nephrologist and internal medicine physician in New York City. • Kidney Notes was the first active nephrology blog. (Trivia: Kidney Notes is so old that the National Library of Medicine still uses it as an example of how to formally cite blogs.) • Professionally, you can find me at Kidney.nyc. • Kidney Notes is for educational purposes only, not medical advice. Consult qualified health care professionals. See disclaimer.

Friday, December 22, 2006

Rank the Best Internal Medicine, Cardiology, and Nephrology Books using Amazon's Mechanical Turk and Unspun

Amazon's Mechanical Turk is an experiment in "Artificial Artificial Intelligence" -- human intelligence that looks like artificial intelligence. Unspun is a service that uses Amazon's Mechanical Turk in order to create "best of" lists. Here are three sample lists:
You can rank other lists (and be paid a small amount) using the Mechanical Turk here.