Interesting...but niche? Considering the story has been up for 15 hours and has only 7 comments (8 now), one of which is from someone on the project, I'd have to say your point is proven.
Glad somebody gets this. I had a whole thread on digg where I was trying to point out pricing ink in terms of gallons is just needlessly sensationalist. Guess how that went over?
I did, too. But then I switched back. Unfortunately, they didn't have support for realizing that the charger stopped sending juice to my ipod mini. So when I turned my car off, my ipod didn't automatically pause. This is a major feature for me with audiobooks.
love in heterosexual couples is nothing more than an evolutionary solution Don't be too sure of that. "Love" as being fundamental to a couple's relationship is a fairly recent phenomenon. Now "lust", on the other hand...
1. remove all previous logs
2. make the bots easily identifiable and on a OPT-IN basis only
3. make it easy for a channel owner to part a irseek bot from a channel should he/she change their mind
4. its heavily advertised on join of a channel that it is being logged
Additionally, Freenode wants a public apology to all their affected users. Or?
Short of suing the company for copyright infringement (which I think would be difficult to make stick in court), I don't really see what kind of leverage they have. Basically, their demands are "go out of business", because that's what complying with their demands would mean. So why should IrSeeK comply?
Ah yes, the stairmaster. Row upon row of them sit idle at my gym. I have only ever seen one person use them there. They have quite fallen out of fashion. Everyone goes for the elliptical these days, as well as the old standbys of the treadmill and the stationary bikes. I see a bright future ahead for Gamercize.
This is just a sensationalist article. The kids won't be charged with "virtual theft", they'll be charge with hacking and phishing to get people's account information, then using that information to access their accounts. No need to get all worried about "virtual property" and such. It's just a Habbo spokesman running off at the mouth.
I imagine the charge (if any) will be the hacking/phishing. Most of that article is made up of the Habbo spokesman talking, not of any statements by the Dutch legal system. That just doesn't make as "interesting" of an article to read.
I think you have to consider that netflix is working off a very large user base with a very large list of titles. In this sense, computation time is going to go way up the more you keep adding all these factors. I'm sure they've had projects internal to netflix to use more data, but found that it just didn't pay off with the increased computation time. It's much better to get good recommendations onto the page instantly than make the user wait 2 seconds for great recommendations. The same is possibly true for doing recommendations ahead of time and having to spend the extra compute time and storage space.
Plus, I think there's always going to be some level of "noise" in the system. People rating things incorrectly (clicked on the wrong number), people changing their minds, etc. And then there's the cases where it makes no logical sense that if I liked movie A, B and C that I should hate movie D. The question is, how good can a recommendation system get when it will always be thrown off by the noise.
So while I agree with you in theory, I think it may not work out to be such a great thing in practice.
That's what you get for lack of reading comprehension, including familiarizing yourself with what the contest actually is. The contest wasn't to beat Netflix's algorithm. The contest was to beat it by 10%. Nothing in the summary of the original article was incorrect.
I can say I played with it because I found it fun. I'm a coder, it's what my brain is interested in. There have been contests for ages simply because human beings like to compete, even if second place gets nothing.
And FYI, netflix doesn't get any "ideas" from anyone but the winner. You only have to submit your code if you win.
That's not how the contest works. It's based on the RMSE that the original netflix algorithm got at the beginning of the contest. This is fixed and does not change. See the contest site for more details.
You do know netflix already HAS a recommendation engine, right? Supposedly a very good one. The whole point of the contest was to significantly improve that engine.
Accuracy in this contest is defined as the user rating highly the movies that the system would suggest to them. The whole point of it is trust. If you're throwing out lots of suggestions that the user doesn't like just to try to find one they might like, you're destroying their trust in the system. They won't bother even reading the recommendations if they know they're filled with garbage.
It's not a moving target. It's a very fixed number (RMSE = 0.8563) that the winning algorithm has to come up with. The netflix algorithm never gets re-run on the data for the prize.
Netflix is free to merge any improvements into their actual system in the meantime.
You clearly don't understand. Every console should also be an internet browser and a media center. What are you thinking, that there's some other magical device that could be used to browse the internet and play movies? Snap out of it.
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Wow, you're really not going to like their cellphone jammer...
I know, I looked it up before posting. It was a joke. ;)
Glad somebody gets this. I had a whole thread on digg where I was trying to point out pricing ink in terms of gallons is just needlessly sensationalist. Guess how that went over?
There isn't a default. Read several previous comments like yours that have already been answered.
I did, too. But then I switched back. Unfortunately, they didn't have support for realizing that the charger stopped sending juice to my ipod mini. So when I turned my car off, my ipod didn't automatically pause. This is a major feature for me with audiobooks.
1. remove all previous logs
2. make the bots easily identifiable and on a OPT-IN basis only
3. make it easy for a channel owner to part a irseek bot from a channel should he/she change their mind
4. its heavily advertised on join of a channel that it is being logged
Additionally, Freenode wants a public apology to all their affected users. Or?
Short of suing the company for copyright infringement (which I think would be difficult to make stick in court), I don't really see what kind of leverage they have. Basically, their demands are "go out of business", because that's what complying with their demands would mean. So why should IrSeeK comply?
Ah yes, the stairmaster. Row upon row of them sit idle at my gym. I have only ever seen one person use them there. They have quite fallen out of fashion. Everyone goes for the elliptical these days, as well as the old standbys of the treadmill and the stationary bikes. I see a bright future ahead for Gamercize.
Unfortunately (for you), you are probably not very representative of netflix's customer base. It's all about cost/benefit. For THEM, not you. ;)
This is just a sensationalist article. The kids won't be charged with "virtual theft", they'll be charge with hacking and phishing to get people's account information, then using that information to access their accounts. No need to get all worried about "virtual property" and such. It's just a Habbo spokesman running off at the mouth.
I imagine the charge (if any) will be the hacking/phishing. Most of that article is made up of the Habbo spokesman talking, not of any statements by the Dutch legal system. That just doesn't make as "interesting" of an article to read.
I think you have to consider that netflix is working off a very large user base with a very large list of titles. In this sense, computation time is going to go way up the more you keep adding all these factors. I'm sure they've had projects internal to netflix to use more data, but found that it just didn't pay off with the increased computation time. It's much better to get good recommendations onto the page instantly than make the user wait 2 seconds for great recommendations. The same is possibly true for doing recommendations ahead of time and having to spend the extra compute time and storage space.
Plus, I think there's always going to be some level of "noise" in the system. People rating things incorrectly (clicked on the wrong number), people changing their minds, etc. And then there's the cases where it makes no logical sense that if I liked movie A, B and C that I should hate movie D. The question is, how good can a recommendation system get when it will always be thrown off by the noise.
So while I agree with you in theory, I think it may not work out to be such a great thing in practice.
That's what you get for lack of reading comprehension, including familiarizing yourself with what the contest actually is. The contest wasn't to beat Netflix's algorithm. The contest was to beat it by 10%. Nothing in the summary of the original article was incorrect.
I can say I played with it because I found it fun. I'm a coder, it's what my brain is interested in. There have been contests for ages simply because human beings like to compete, even if second place gets nothing.
And FYI, netflix doesn't get any "ideas" from anyone but the winner. You only have to submit your code if you win.
That's not how the contest works. It's based on the RMSE that the original netflix algorithm got at the beginning of the contest. This is fixed and does not change. See the contest site for more details.
You do know netflix already HAS a recommendation engine, right? Supposedly a very good one. The whole point of the contest was to significantly improve that engine.
Accuracy in this contest is defined as the user rating highly the movies that the system would suggest to them. The whole point of it is trust. If you're throwing out lots of suggestions that the user doesn't like just to try to find one they might like, you're destroying their trust in the system. They won't bother even reading the recommendations if they know they're filled with garbage.
It's not a moving target. It's a very fixed number (RMSE = 0.8563) that the winning algorithm has to come up with. The netflix algorithm never gets re-run on the data for the prize.
Netflix is free to merge any improvements into their actual system in the meantime.
You clearly don't understand. Every console should also be an internet browser and a media center. What are you thinking, that there's some other magical device that could be used to browse the internet and play movies? Snap out of it.
I vote for the slingshot effect.
This has to be the most content-free article in a while. All this boils down to is:
A two player mode is hard to come up with.
We thought about it.
We like what we came up with.
I can't believe they took a whole article to say that.
C'mon, no need to be that drastic. Just give them tracking collars.
That explode when removed.