Netflix Prize Competitor Already Beats Netflix

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday October 9, 2006 @03:14AM from the no-really-drop-dead-gorgeous-is-funny dept.

Baldrson writes "Within the first week of the announcement of The Netflix Prize a team has already beaten Netflix's own movie recommendation algorithm. This is pretty impressive given the previously quoted researcher who said: 'You're competing with 15 years of really smart people banging away at the problem.' The team is WXYZConsulting.com apparently registered by a data mining professor named Yi Zhang. Congratulations are in order for Netflix and Prof. Zhang's team who are demonstrating, yet again, the power of prizes to accelerate progress."

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Re:banned in Quebec by ajs · 2006-10-09 03:56 · Score: 0, Redundant

Quebec presumably has rules against gambling that precludes such cash-based contents.

The others are the list of nations that U.S. businesses are not allowed to deal with. The list is published by the State Department.