nytimes.com— Basement hackers and amateur mathematicians are competing to improve the program that Netflix uses to recommend DVDs — and to win $1 million in the process.
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Because, customers who liked Napoleon Dynamite might like other films like it. Whatever those are. Submitting to defeat this early in the game of recommendation technologies and indexing is not an option. If knowing they liked Napoleon Dynamite can help make one more good recommendation, its worth it to Netflix to make their technology that much better than the competition.
alexandermillerDec 1, 2008
uh oh, watch out with that equals sign. should beuser-gender == 'male'
b3owulfDec 1, 2008
a) it was obviously psuedocode.... b) depends on the language, you def. don't always need ==
flagmasterDec 1, 2008
Jaxx... Basement Jaxx... Dear Lord, someone needs to learn to type or learn music history...
kibibytebrainDec 1, 2008
Because, customers who liked Napoleon Dynamite might like other films like it. Whatever those are. Submitting to defeat this early in the game of recommendation technologies and indexing is not an option. If knowing they liked Napoleon Dynamite can help make one more good recommendation, its worth it to Netflix to make their technology that much better than the competition.
videopeteDec 1, 2008
Ha. They're also a "PC." Not a Mac to be seen.