Monday, October 02, 2006

How to Win a Million $$

Want to increase your bank balance by a million $$. Herez how you can do. Netflix has announced a prize of $1 million for the person who could come up with a better "movie recommendation" strategy.
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To win the Netflix Prize, competitors must exhibit a 10 percent improvement in accuracy over the current Netflix recommendation system.

"Recommendation systems" should be an interesting area of research. It should be interesting to see how intelligence is built into a system for understanding humans and providing recommendations. Probably we might end up having systems that would provide recommendations for more than books and movies. Imagine a world where systems are capable of understanding physical illness and providing recommendations. That would be something

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