{"id":1454,"date":"2008-03-05T06:36:55","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T05:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2008\/03\/05\/wired-article-on-the-netflix-prize\/"},"modified":"2008-03-05T06:36:55","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T05:36:55","slug":"wired-article-on-the-netflix-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2008\/03\/05\/wired-article-on-the-netflix-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Wired article on the Netflix prize"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Netflix<\/a>Wired magazine<\/a> have a interesting – if geeky – article on the $1 million prize Netflix offered<\/a> to whoever could create a movie-recommending algorithm<\/a> 10 percent better than its own.<\/p>\n

They write<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In October 2006, Netflix announced it would give a cool seven figures to whoever created a movie-recommending algorithm 10 percent better than its own.<\/p>\n

Within two weeks, the DVD rental company had received 169 submissions, including three that were slightly superior to Cinematch, Netflix’s recommendation software. After a month, more than a thousand programs had been entered, and the top scorers were almost halfway to the goal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It seems there might be an unlikely contender:<\/p>\n

His name is Gavin Potter.<\/strong> He’s a 48-year-old Englishman, a retired management consultant with an undergraduate degree in psychology and a master’s in operations research.<\/p>\n

He has worked for Shell, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and IBM. In 2006, he left his job at IBM to explore the idea of starting a PhD in machine learning, a field in which he has no formal training.<\/p>\n

When he read about the Netflix Prize, he decided to give it a shot \u2014 what better way to find out just how serious about the topic he really was?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can read the full article over at Wired<\/a>.<\/p>\n

> Check out the rules at Netflix<\/a>
\n> Find out more about algorithms at Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wired magazine have a interesting – if geeky – article on the $1 million prize Netflix offered to whoever could create a movie-recommending algorithm 10 percent better than its own. They write: In October 2006, Netflix announced it would give a cool seven figures to whoever created a movie-recommending algorithm 10 percent better than its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}