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NetFlix has awarded a $1 million bounty to an international team of mathematicians and computer scientists known as BellKor’s Pragmatic Chaos.

Posted on September 22, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

“The prize is for improving the algorithm Netflix uses to recommend movies to users based on their past preferences. The competition gave computer scientists a dataset containing 100 million ratings given to nearly 20,000 films by half a million users, and challenged them to use the information to improve the accuracy of the firm’s recommendations by 10 per cent.”

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← English Wikipedia will soon launch a new feature that will allow you to edit, as an inexperienced user, articles that have previously been locked more-or-less continuously for years.
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