then WordPress. Not having posted for a while, I’m trying to get things in order and keep up to date (or at least a little more than posting once every 18 months), and I’m switching to a competitor. The new site (with the old posts) is now http://asluckwouldhaveit.blogspot.com/
April 25, 2009
November 11, 2006
The Netflix Prize
I’m intrigued by the announcement of The Netflix Prize. Already some of the students in the lab are keen to see if they can win the $50,000 or even the $1,000,000 prize!
From the website: “The Netflix Prize seeks to substantially improve the accuracy of predictions about how much someone is going to love a movie based on their movie preferences. Improve it enough and you win one (or more) Prizes. “
And from The Guardian:
“US online DVD rental service Netflix Inc has announced a version of the Longitude prize for film geeks – a $1m bounty to the first person to develop software to improve its movie recommendation system by 10%.
Currently, the system “learns” the individual taste of each of Netflix’s 5.2m subscribers by asking them to rate the films they watch. This data is then used to generate a list of suggestions or “recommendations”, unique to each user.
To win Netflix’s prize, the software program must demonstrably improve upon the current movie-recommendation system by at least 10%. The differences will be tracked by a program that quantifies how well the recommendation systems predict which movies will be liked or disliked by a profiled consumer.”
Blog, anyone?
It seems that everyone has a blog. I don’t know whether I’ll use this, but it seems like a good way to keep track of random interesting bits and pieces. I did try to create one on my own website, but because I’m new to this blogging game, I don’t really understand the rules, so using WordPress seems like a sensible way to manage it more easily. Maybe I’ll work it out and do my own thing in time.
