Netflix Progress Prize Awarded

Re:Netflix Progress Prize Awarded by boredguy8 on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @07:00PM (#393668)

A 9% improvement represents a substantial increase in quality of recommendations. If I remember correctly, a 10% improvement meant the difference between a complete star rating, on average. (There was a fairly substantial write-up about what the 10% meant last year.) I'd say for the people-hours put in to the project, they've gotten more than their money's worth.

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Re:Netflix Progress Prize Awarded by jmtame on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @07:43PM (#393720)

Oh I bet they have. Have you calculated the number of hours the 35,000 teams put in relative to the amount of pay they received?

I bet they've gotten more than their money's worth.

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Re:Netflix Progress Prize Awarded by mhb on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @08:00PM (#393738)

At what rate should we value their hours? Do you charge more or less for doing something you like?

Have you considered that voluntary trade is not zero sum?

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Re:Netflix Progress Prize Awarded by jmtame on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @09:11PM (#393826)

Voluntary as in they don't get paid?

Because I'm sure that every single person has no intention of receiving any of the prize money. None whatsoever, it's purely voluntary, and nobody deserves any money for making Netflix more profitable.

Wow you guys really want to bring it out of me on this thread. That's alright though, I dig everyone's energy (and I don't mind taking a bit of a karma beating over this either).

Actually, at the time of writing this, as a result of my discussion, other people have been awarded 28 karma points (where I have suffered a loss of a few). Outside discussion accounts for 35 karma points. So relative to the overall karma, I'm helping a lot of people out by being the grumpy, grouchy, mean old Mr. Scrooge in defense of the researcher. I do it for you guys! :D

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Re:Netflix Progress Prize Awarded by daveungerer on Thursday December 11, 2008 @05:28AM (#394178)

You don't think the people entering this competition can at the very least calculate the odds of winning?

Now if only it was possible to blacklist trolls...

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Re:Netflix Progress Prize Awarded by jmtame on Thursday December 11, 2008 @12:49PM (#394525)

I don't think you can silence people who disagree with your views on HN, but goodluck trying.

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