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Netflix Announces Second Data Mining Contest

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the sixteen-tons-and-whaddaya-get dept.

John Snodgrass writes "Neil Hunt, Chief Product Officer at Netflix, has announced on the Netflix Prize Forums that they are planning to hold a new data mining competition. The second competition will have some twists and is expected to be shorter in duration. It will feature two grand prizes, to be awarded in a 6 and 18 month time frame. A previous competitor still active on the board has already dubbed it: 'The Sparse Matrix: Reordered' and 'The Sparse Matrix: Factorizations.'"

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  1. Re:Contests by Ethanol-fueled · · Score: -1, Troll

    What else would the basement-dwelling neckbeards and Asperger's trust-fund kids, who actually have the spare time for it, do?

    Find a job? In America?! HAW!