Not surprisingly <G>, Wired has an interesting follow up story on how the Netflix prize was won – and notes real progress was made in the contest’s goal to improve the Netflix movie recommendation algorithm by 10 percent only after the leaders joined forces with members of some of the also-ran teams.
The post is a very interesting read, and includes an equation from Yehuda Koren’s prize-winning documentation which shows the winning team adding a third set of movie-movie weights, and emphasis on adjacent ratings made by a user:
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