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Re:Pragmatic Theory, Commendo, Yahoo and AT&T hit the Netfli... by elq on Friday June 26, 2009 @05:07PM (#676133)
(disclaimer: I work on the cinematch team)

it's rather important to us that the solutions aren't over fit so we've worked very hard to make it hard if not impossible to do.

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Re:Pragmatic Theory, Commendo, Yahoo and AT&T hit the Netfli... by Aron on Friday June 26, 2009 @05:42PM (#676194)
1) There's not enough information returned by the submission process (a single RMSE number per day). 2) The information you do get is on half of your submission, but it is the other half that counts. So you get no information back on that.
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