Netflix awards $1 million for plan to improve movie recommendation system

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Netflix awarded $1 million dollars to a team of engineers, researchers and a scientist who came up with a plan to improve the company’s movie recommendation system by 10%. The winners, BellKor’s Pragmatic Chaos, beat out thousands of competitors in the Netflix contest, which the company first announced three years ago.

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znachki
Mon 09/21/09 4:09 PM

Thank goodness, because the stuff that comes up sometimes on my recommend list is inexplicable. If you like well-made movies, irrespective of genre, the system can’t figure out what “box” to put you in. No “box” is the point.

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JPX
Mon 09/21/09 4:14 PM

Your title is almost as long as your “article”. How about a little more information, Tim?

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