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Build a Better Netflix, Win a Million Dollars?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the trumps-our-redesign-contest dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In a quest to better movie recommendations, Netflix is opening their database (nytimes, registration and first child required) to users to try to craft a better recommendation technology. The problem is not easy. Says one researcher: 'You're competing with 15 years of really smart people banging away at the problem.'" Recommender systems are really an interesting problem, and that is likely very interesting data to play with.

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  1. So, we can then conclude by jimstapleton · · Score: 3, Funny
    Says one researcher: "You're competing with 15 years of really smart people banging away at the problem."


    So, the professionals have been working at it for a long time. Is it safe to assume some teenage to early college hacker will find a success within two weeks.
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  2. Simple by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    if(user.getGender()==Person.MALE)
    recomendation=MovieGenre.PORN;
    else
    recomendation=MovieGenre.CHICKFLICK;

    And of course, slashdot must have sensed my post as my image word is "pervert"

    1. Re:Simple by kelzer · · Score: 4, Funny

      Old Version:

      if(user.getGender()==Person.MALE)
      recomendation=MovieGenre.PORN;
      else
      recomendation=MovieGenre.CHICKFLICK;

      New Version, sure to win the million bucks:

      if(user.getGender()==Person.MALE && user.getOrientation()==Person.STRAIGHT)
      recomendation=MovieGenre.PORN;
      else
      recomendation=MovieGenre.CHICKFLICK;

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  3. Just add racing stripes! by capitalj · · Score: 2, Funny

    And some macaroni pieces.

  4. Re:Fix the problems with what they send me first by nine-times · · Score: 2, Funny
    They've got the tech to keep one season of a tv show in order, it can't possibly be that difficult to extend that to keeping multiple seasons of a show in order.

    I thought Netflix users just ripped the movies to their hard drive for later viewing anyway?

  5. Re:Suggestion by truthsearch · · Score: 4, Funny

    Point conceded.

    For the record, this is a turning point in slashdot history. I'll forever remember where I was when I first saw those words in a slashdot comment. (Which of course is at work, sitting through a boring meeting.)

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  6. Re:whew!! by 0xABADC0DA · · Score: 2, Funny

    It depends on what the definition of the phhrase "is is" is.

  7. Re:whew!! by BMonger · · Score: 2, Funny

    Like I I read read what I write... sheesh!