Re:Netflix Progress Prize Awarded
by aswanson on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @10:11PM
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No I wouldn't have, because I could only make a statement like that after seeing performance information. Since at least 40 teams beat that performance the first year, I would have said they set the bar too low.
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And why do you think 10% is impossible but 9.5% is not?
I said they may have found a bound. I didn't say it was; it said there may be a limit. Re-read the ancestor.
You are playing with words.
The point is that there's really not much difference between 10% and 9.56%.
Netflix's Grand Prize could very well had been 9.64% and it would already had been won, despite everybody saying one year ago that 9.64% might be impossible given the dataset.
We will talk again in one year to see if 10% may be impossible.
Barring either of us getting hit by a beer truck or moving on to a new site,or the apocalypse you're on. Catch you 12/11/09!