Netflix Prize May Have Been Achieved

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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i was joking, however

[circletimessquare]

from the excellent nyt article about the competition in november:

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/22/0526216

it isn't bad movies that are the problem, taste in bad movies can still be uniform

the real problem is extremely controversial movies, most notably Napoleon Dynamite

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374900/

not controversial in terms of dealing with abortion or gun control, but controversial in terms of some people really found the movie totally stupid, while some people really found the movie to be really funny

movies like napolean dynamite are genre edge conditions, and people who apparently agree on everything else about movies in general encounter movies like this one and suddenly dramatically differ on their opinion of it, in completely unpredictable ways