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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. 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"