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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. 1 Million split 7 ways by basementman · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let's see, $1,000,000 split 7 ways gives us $142,857.14 each. Let's say taxes take half, now you are down to only $71,428.57 each. Unless one of them kills all of their partners like in The Dark Knight that ain't much of a prize.

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  2. they were able to get the extra 0.5% over the top by circletimessquare · · Score: 4, Funny

    by simply ignoring data from anyone who ever rented SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2, Gigli, From Justin to Kelly, Disaster Movie, any movie by Uwe Boll and any movie starring Paris Hilton

    suddenly, everything made sense

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  3. Re:they were able to get the extra 0.5% over the t by interkin3tic · · Score: 2, Funny

    by simply ignoring data from anyone who ever rented SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2, Gigli, From Justin to Kelly, Disaster Movie, any movie by Uwe Boll and any movie starring Paris Hilton

    Hey, I (along with the rest of my frat, our school hockey team, and most of the town) was in a movie starring Paris Hilton, you insensitive clod!

  4. Re:alas, basementman by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'm BatCoward.