New Leader In Netflix Prize Race With One Day To Go 87
brajesh writes "The Netflix Prize, an algorithm competition to improve the Netflix Cinematch recommendation system by more than 10%, has a new leader — The Ensemble — just one day before the competition ends. The 30-day race to the end was kicked off after BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos submitted the first entry to break the 10% barrier, with the results showing a 10.08% improvement. The Ensemble, made up of three teams who chose to join forces ('Grand Prize Team,' 'Opera Solutions' and 'Vandelay United), has managed to overtake BellKor with a score of 10.09% — an improvement of .01% over the former leaders. From the article on Techcrunch: 'The competition will end [today], so teams still have a little bit of time left to make their last-second submissions, but things are looking good for The Ensemble. This has to be absolutely brutal for team BellKor.'"
Uve Boll (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I think (Score:3, Funny)
(Joking, partly).
Re:I think (Score:5, Funny)
>Slashdot, for instance, could have a contest to unbreak their fucking code by 10%.
I remember playing Call of Cthulhu many years ago and being told of the hideously deranging results of mere mortals who happened to gaze upon the unspeakable things that lurked in the dark places.
I beg you not to lead others down your insane and twisting path.
NO GOOD CAN COME OF IT! NO GOOOD!
Re:There is more than 1 day left (Score:3, Funny)
Call me crazy, but if you actually *read* the rules it says the contest is going until at least October 2nd, 2001.
Actually, yes, I think I will call you crazy.
Re:There is more than 1 day left (Score:3, Funny)
Okay, you're crazy :-)
So, there's approximately minus 2855 days left?
I just want to know if netflix gets to keep John Titor's time machine [wikipedia.org] ... the time frame (2001) is right ...