Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Netflix's one meeeeellion dollars

Netflix is offering a $1 million prize for a program that will improve their recommendation system. Word on the street is that this system is already pretty good, what do people think?

Posted by totoro at 4:06 PM

2 comments:

BURNTRAMEN said...

my friend Eugene had some commentary on the friends engine.. is that the same as the similarity engine? Here you go: http://www.eugenewei.com/mtweblog/archives/002869.html

It's pretty inciteful.

3:30 PM
nyanko said...

The recommendation engine has seemed pretty good to me. I don't use them all that much, but I have found some interesting movies. It's better than the TiVo suggestions, because there are a lot more movies, and a lot more obscure movies, so it's easier for the recommendation engine to find a hidden gem. And because it's not possible to be watching all the movies you might be interested in, whereas I do a pretty good job of watching all the tv I'm into.

4:11 PM

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