The Screens Issue: If You Liked This, Sure to Love That
THE NAPOLEON DYNAMITE problem is driving Len Bertoni crazy ... . In the spring of 2007, his sister-in-law e-mailed him an intriguing bit of news: Netflix, the Web ... Volinsky (left) with Robert Bell working out Netflix algorithms at the AT&T research labs in New Jersey and breast bikini componentsforlaptop.com
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Officially Enemy Approved! (Not That Anybody Asked!)
On occasion I review movies, books, games, and music on the Enemy Blog ... god for Netflix. I've had the chance to see more movies than I could possibly hope for. If you have an obscure Russian sub-titled movie about pre-Communist farmers, I'm your guy! Empire and hair style fan club enemyblog.typepad.com
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Netflix Cinematch Contest
This is a FASCINATING article in the New York Times about a coding contest that Netflix has been running for the past couple of years to improve ... in the Netflix Web site that analyzes each customers movie-viewing habits and recommends other movies ... : Netflix, the Web-based DVD-rental company, was holding a contest to try to improve Cinematch, its and fan club gossip thomasrainwater.com
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P:SI #278 Sanctuary for all but the Witches
Twitterrank Cool Stuff Quantum of Solace Master Mind Heavy Metal Gay Superhero Witchfinder and Sanctuary Today on the Project: Shadow Informant. Culture Is Twitterank Ranking Your Popularity Or Stealing Your Password? (via Mashable) Cool Stuff: Bronze Yoda Statue Scale Replica (via /Film) Movie In Theaters: Quantum and gossip myspace projectshadow.com
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If You Liked This, Youre Sure to Love That
[Note: This item comes from reader Monty Solomon. NPR's 'On the Media' did a story this week on this article ... Pittsburgh. In the spring of 2007, his sister-in-law e-mailed him an intriguing bit of news: Netflix ... recommendation engine. The prize: $1 million. Cinematch is the bit of software embedded in the Netflix and myspace aol www.warpspeed.com
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Netflix Prize: Joining the Rat Race
I decided a couple of nights ago to see how well I would do in the Netflix Prize. This is a competition from the company Netflix, an online movie rental site, that gives two gigs worth of user ranking data to see if anyone can improve their own ranking algorithm, Cinematech and aol picture cmunezero.com
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Challenges of Collaborative Filtering
Previously Vincent wrote about collaborative filtering here on Tech It Easy and made a really good business case on the topic of user-generated ... , Last.fm, Netflix et al. way of clustering users with similar histories and recommending what other ... neighborhood should be). The other main reason for interest in the Amazon/Netflix way is, of course and picture perfume techiteasy.org
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YouTube film service unlikely to be as profitable as iTunes
YouTube film service unlikely to be as profitable as iTunes November 13th, 2008 If YouTube and Hulu are to become Web movie houses, ... the kind of returns the studios see from pay-TV channels, DVD sales, and iTunes, which charges for movie downloads. One of the hurdles ad-supported movie sites face is that many people dont want to watch and perfume photos www.sujoksumanshah.com
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The Twenty Things I Most Enjoyed This Year: An All-Encompassing Mega-List
Ah, the end of the year... a time for reflection, a time for drinking champagne until you puke into someone's decorative umbrella stand, a time for... above all else... ranking all the things you enjoyed over the past 365 days in order to best reflect your personality without having to actually put forth the effort of connecting to another human and photos gif zombiefightsshark.blogspot.com
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Weekly Review: Links from 12/7/08 - 12/12/08
This is another installment of the Weekly Review of online video, social media, gadgets and from December 7-12, 2008. I meant to post this yesterday but my Internet connection went down late in the day.December 7 , 2008Targeting, Consistency Brighten Outlook at Indie Web Studios - TVWeek - NewsDespite layoffs at Web video studios and sliding and gif videos klessblog.blogspot.com
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Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette,1974)
11.23.08 This movie has landed with a bullet in my top five movies of all time. (Dont ask what the other four are, I havent figured that out yet.) Nothing cinematic has ever infiltrated its way and videos bag pftb.wordpress.com
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One For My Brother: A Best OfList
January 2, 2009 Anecdotes and commentary on Gilroy Drastiks Top 10 favorite movies (as hard as it was to limit the list to just 10) , Jaws ... , Spielbergs 1975 iconographic movie of the predatory Great White terrorizing the fictional ... and adieu to you fine Spanish ladies In part, the movie has survived the test of time because and bag icons muvika.wordpress.com
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Netflix's 'Napoleon Dynamite' Problem: Worth Solving!
[ 23netfilx.1-190.jpg]TheNapoleon Dynamiteproblem is driving Len Bertoni crazy ... board" ranking the top contestants.) More at the New York TImes. Tags: cinematch, netflix, netflix ... . In the spring of 2007, his sister-in-law e-mailed him an intriguing bit of news: Netflix, the Web and icons icon blog.tmcnet.com
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The Latest from TechCrunch
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Netflix Prize scoring function isn't Bayesian
NY Times has a good article on the state of recommender systems: "If You Liked This, Sure to Love That " ... status and went on to become extremely popular on Netflix. It is, Bertoni and others have discovered ... on regular hits like Lethal Weapon or Miss Congeniality and tries to predict how any given Netflix user and pics bags www.stat.columbia.edu
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Netflixs Napoleon Dynamite Problem: Worth Solving!
[ 23netfilx.1-190.jpg]TheNapoleon Dynamiteproblem is driving Len Bertoni crazy ... board ranking the top contestants.) More at the New York TImes. Tags: cinematch, netflix, netflix ... . In the spring of 2007, his sister-in-law e-mailed him an intriguing bit of news: Netflix, the Web and bags blog blog.buildabetterrobot.com
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Netflix, Napoleon Dynamite, & The Million Dollar Prize
This old math major really enjoyed the article set out below. Netflix, the movie rental service, is offering $1,000,000 for someone to come up with a ... a lot of movies from Netflix that I have never heard of based on recommendations they make. Ive come and blog fashion www.jerrypettit.com
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