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Netflix Prize May Have Been Achieved

Posted by Soulskill on from the universal-exclusion-of-pauly-shore-did-the-trick dept.

MadAnalyst writes "The long-running $1,000,000 competition to improve on the Netflix Cinematch recommendation system by 10% (in terms of the RMSE) may have finally been won. Recent results show a 10.05% improvement from the team called BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos, a merger between some of the teams who were getting close to the contest's goal. We've discussed this competition in the past."

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  1. Re:most of them did it by OeLeWaPpErKe · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Heh, it's more than I make in a year. Much more I might add.

    And they could always pay it to a charity. You know "Society for the improvement of John Q. Myself", headquartered in Bermuda, to "cheat" taxes. The whole Obama administration are tax dodgers, or at least, one could be forgiven for thinking so, meaning it can't be that wrong. If "tax-cheaters anonymous" is good enough a government for the american people, surely they can forgive an enterprising tax dodging geek, right ?