Netflix == Mind Reader
A while back Netflix started a contest to improve their movie suggestion system. According to netflixprize.com:
“The Netflix Prize seeks to substantially improve the accuracy of predictions about how much someone is going to love a movie based on their movie preferences.”
The winning team can bag some major cash. <dr. evil voice>One Meeeeelion Dollars</dr. evil voice> to be exact, but be warned that the problems that you are tasked to solve are very complex. We’re talking major math-brainiac stuff here.
Whatever the outcome of the contest (which will run until October, 2 2011), I hope that someone writes some software that will improve the prediction engine so that it will prevent suggestions like this one I got yesterday:
Beerfest? Gee, how did you guess?
What’s not to love about Beerfest?
those guys are incredibly silly. bringing back 80s frivolity one movie at a time…
O.M.G. when are y’all gonna screen Honey and Clover for me?!?!
You know H&C?!?!??!?!?!
We have both seasons of the anime. LOVE that series.
We made my parents watch it with us.
Hagu-chan!