Winning the Netflix Prize
Fascinating NY Times write-up about the $1 million Netflix Prize and how engineers around the world are trying to fine tune complex computer algorithms to win the jackpot.
Later on, it evolves into a brilliant discussion about the nature of recommendation engines and why social networking tools may overtake computer-based reasoning in the future.
Recommended reading.
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The New York Times’s Clive Thompson has a fascinating...prize offered by
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1 & 2 are two of my favourites too and I hate many of the others… neeeeeat.
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This article led me to investigate the most polarizing movies from the Netflix data. According to calculations from...
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