Circletimessquare brings us an update to the status of the million-dollar Netflix tug of war to develop a better algorithm for movie recommendations. We've discussed aspects of the battle since it started two years ago, but the New York Times has a lengthy scrutiny of where it stands now. "The Netflix war is still going strong, with a vibrant, 1995 by houghton mifflin harcourt printing company. published by houghton mifflin harcourt issue company. all rights reserved.view results from: gazetteer | llc.view results from: vocabulary | llc.view results from: dictionary | thesaurus | encyclopedia | all reference | the web
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adtarget = roster of some 30,000 programmers around the globe hard at work trying to win the prize. The Times provides a look at some of the more obsessive searchers, such as Len Bertoni, a semi-retired digital rocket technician near Pittsburgh who logs 20 hours a week on the problem, oftentimes with the help of his children. There's also Martin Chabbert in Montreal: 'After the kids are asleep and I've packed the lunches for school, I come down at 9 in the evening and work until 11 or 12.' The article gets into the history of the search algorithm Netflix currently uses, and explores the hot commodity called 'singular value decomposition' that serves as the basis for most of the algorithms in competition."

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