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Re:Netflix Progress Prize Awarded by pg on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @08:51PM (#393794)
Hmm. What could Netflix know, though? Is it even possible to quantify how hard it is to improve a recommendation algorithm by a certain amount?
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Re:Netflix Progress Prize Awarded by aswanson on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @10:17PM (#393888)
Maybe there is an inherent noise floor for the optimal estimator for the dataset they have found or bounded.
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