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Re: Netflix contest: $1M to developer of best movie recommendation engine
« Reply #25 on: September 21, 2009, 03:56 PM »
Prize Awarded:

http://bits.blogs.ny...ts-a-new-contest/?hp

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For those AI researchers who wish they had participated.. it looks like Netflix is going to have another similar contest with another $million dollars in prizes..
« Last Edit: September 21, 2009, 03:58 PM by mouser »

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Re: Netflix contest: $1M to developer of best movie recommendation engine
« Reply #26 on: September 21, 2009, 04:20 PM »
Based on your experience on the contest and the difficulty of the algorithm would you say that it was impossible for a single individual to achieve the goal and thus win the prize?

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Re: Netflix contest: $1M to developer of best movie recommendation engine
« Reply #27 on: September 21, 2009, 05:47 PM »
absolutely no reason one person could not have won netflix (or win the new one), using nothing more than a normal desktop computer.

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Re: Netflix contest: $1M to developer of best movie recommendation engine
« Reply #28 on: September 21, 2009, 08:19 PM »
Nice post on John Langford's "Machine Learning (Theory)" blog:
http://hunch.net/?p=949
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