Whimsley: The Netflix Prize: 300 Days Later
"So what I get from the Netflix prize is that there are probably significant limits to recommender systems. Even the smartest don't do a whole lot better than the simple approaches, and a lot of work is required to eke out even a little more actual information from the morass of data."
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Tags: netflix, ratings, computer science, statistics, math, prediction
- Saved by Mark Paschal on July 31, 2007.
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mote | Whimsley: The Netflix Prize: 300 Days Later |
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August 4, 2007 |
recommendation engines might not be the all-singing, all-dancing panacaea we hope them to be. human data just too noisy. i like to dream, still. |
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akent | Whimsley: The Netflix Prize: 300 Days Later |
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August 1, 2007 |
Is the netflix prize even attainable? |
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angusf | Whimsley: The Netflix Prize: 300 Days Later |
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August 1, 2007 |