Well… I’m registered and working on the Netflix Prize. If you haven’t heard, Netflix is running a contest for all us geeks in the amount of $1MIL!! Yeah, a million. All you have to do is beat their recommendation system ‘CineMatch’ by 10%… sounds easy, right?? Well, all you get is 200 million old ratings(1-5), given to a set of movies, from a set of customers. Now, all I need to do is figure out how to “predict” what a customer will rate a movie in the future, based on the given data. Sounds easy enough. :-p
All I know is… if I win this contest… no more Quantum.