Netflix Prize Contest ends after nearly three years
According to the leaderboard, the Ensemble submitted its potential winning entry just 20 minutes after BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos made its final test. The score is 10.10% for Ensemble and 10.09% for BKPC, but the results are now going to judges for testing and verification before the prize is awarded. As a condition of the contest, the teams agree to reveal their algorithms and make them available for Netflix to use in improving its recommendation system.
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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
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Demo said 11:57PM on 7-26-2009
I think the second team should get some sort of consolation money considering how close they came and the fact that they were first.
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DRTigerlilly said 11:59PM on 7-26-2009
that's just messed up....
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maf teechr said 4:09AM on 7-27-2009
I thought the rules were the first team to obtain 10+%.
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maf teechr said 4:10AM on 7-27-2009
Never mind. Just reread last post saying other teams has 30 days to best it.