Last month, we wrote about the Netflix Prize , a contest where developers and engineers are challenged to improve the Netflix movie recommendations system by 10%.
Nobody could do it in 2007 or 2008, but this year, team BellKor’s Pragmatic Chaos (composed of engineers from AT&T, Commendo, Pragmatic Theory, and Yahoo Research) broke the 10% threshold and guaranteed that someone would win the prize.
However, that wasn’t the end because all the teams got...
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