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Bayesian Filters Predict Sundance

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the because-you-can dept.

JohnGrahamCumming writes "The LA Times reports on a company's use of Bayesian filtering to predict the winners at the Sundance Film Festival. They use a modified POPFile email filter and claim an 81% success rate."

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  1. Filter Mods by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Angsty +2
    Depressing +2
    Happy or Inspirational -1
    Featuring charaters of a marginalized societal group +10
    Featuring charaters of a majority societal group -10
    Making those majority characters feel guilty +20
    Political Agenda +10
    Social Agenda +10
    Leftist Social & Political Agenda +50
    Non-acting acting +3
    Use of black and white film +1
    Sense of Humor -5
    Comedy film -100
    Intellectual +1
    Pseudo-intellectual +30
    Director dresses in all black +4
    Actors dress in all black +10
    Actors dress in all black and do interpretive dance to Phillip Glass music while speaking German backwards +20
    Audience participates and dances with the actors in above scenario +1000
    Would actually generate box office revenue -100
    Good movie that would appeal to more than a niche audience -20