The Netflix prize
Posted by Nick Loadholtes on 10/3/2006 filed in AI, Fun, Programming, PythonEveryone is talking about the offer put up by Netflix yesterday. Basically if you can improve their movie recommendations, you win a million big ones.
This is a really cool idea. Its a hard problem (otherwise everyone and their brother would already have done it), that looks like it has no solution. But just because it looks hard doesn’t mean there isn’t a solution!
To help out Netflix has supplied a data set of user recommendations. Looks like its time to fire up Eclipse, break out the python, and put on my Data Miner hat, and start reading those AI books.
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