Psychologist Beating Math Nerds in Race to Netflix Prize 205
s1d writes "An almost-anonymous British psychologist named Gavin Potter has suddenly risen to the top of the Netflix prize charts. With his very first attempt, he got a score which took the BellKor team seven months to reach. Currently at a score of 8.07, he has only five teams ahead of him now in the race for the ultimate Netflix algorithm. 'Potter says his anonymity is mostly accidental. He started that way and didn't come out into the open until after Wired found him. "I guess I didn't think it was worth putting up a link until I had got somewhere," he says, adding that he'd been seriously posting under the name of his venture capital and consulting firm, Mathematical Capital, for two months before launching "Just a guy." When he started competing, he posted to his blog: "Decided to take the Netflix Prize seriously. Looks kind of fun. Not sure where I will get to as I am not an academic or a mathematician. However, being an unemployed psychologist I do have a bit of time."'"
Beating everyone? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Psychologist? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Psychologist? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Domain Knowledge (Score:5, Funny)
Like they really had a choice...
Poor math nerds... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Psychologist? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Poor math nerds... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Beating everyone? (Score:5, Funny)
Welcome to your therapy session.
Surely not everyone?
Can you elaborate on that?
Why do you mention computers?
Why do you mention computers?
Does that question interest you?
Re:What's the point? (Score:2, Funny)
If you don't find out about those until you read about them in the newspaper, your family qualifies as dysfunctional. Really dysfunctional.
WWLD? (What would leonardo do?) (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, I don't know. If only we had a art history & statistics dual major to figure it out...
Re:What's the point? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Beating everyone? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Psychologist? (Score:4, Funny)
You kids get offa my lawn!
Re:Domain Knowledge (Score:3, Funny)
Almost anonymous? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:All of 18th century science? Really? (Score:4, Funny)
Set the room temperature to 20 degrees, wait, mark off that level on the thermometer. Set the room temperature to 21 degrees....
What would a psychologist know about anything? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Misleading summary (Score:3, Funny)
Not to mention that it likely can't be reduced to Boolean logic.
/Sorry
Re:Beating everyone? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:All of 18th century science? Really? (Score:3, Funny)