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Netflix Prize Competitor Already Beats Netflix
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."
You should add a condition that she would actually have to go out with you for some length of time in order for someone to get the $1000. Because someone might FIND you the perfect g/f, but there's no telling if she'd have anything to do with you or not.
Who really cares? The only area worth mentioning in Quebec is Montreal.
Sure, they're people, blah blah blah...but until they 'get over it' we still won't let them play our reigndeer games.
Remember, these *are* the same idiots that wanted to separate from the rest of thier country, but force the same country to provide them the majority of federal benefits they currently receive as a province.
Let the peppers suffer, I say.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.